Tag Archives: scaling

Foursquare Attempts to "Scale" with DB Sharding, Unsurprisingly Fails

By michael | Published: 6 Oct 2010

Link: Foursquare Attempts to “Scale” with DB Sharding, Unsurprisingly Fails Sharding? Seriously? If that’s MongoDB’s solution to “scaling,” we can go ahead and count them out of the newfangled “NoSQL” DB race. In fact, word to all you NoSQL geeks: I can get sick performance gains out of MySQL by simply replacing my DB server’s [...]

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Server-Side JavaScript With V8 and v8cgi on CentOS 5.3 x86_64

By michael | Published: 8 May 2010

Built without database support, and without the GD image library. YMMV. 1. Install Prerequisites curl -LO http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scons/scons-1.3.0-1.noarch.rpm sudo yum –nogpgcheck localinstall scons-1.3.0-1.noarch.rpm sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ httpd-devel.x86_64 Download V8 and v8cgi curl -O http://v8cgi.googlecode.com/files/v8cgi-0.8.0-src.tar.gz tar xvfz v8cgi-0.8.0-src.tar.gz cd v8cgi-0.8.0-src/ Compile and Install V8 cd v8/ scons arch=x64 library=shared sudo cp libv8.so /usr/lib/ cd .. [...]

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HipHop for PHP on OS X

By michael | Published: 5 May 2010

Link: HipHop for PHP on OS X The OS X fork of Facebook’s HipHop project: HipHop is a source code transformer which transforms PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then compiles it using g++.

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MVC Web Frameworks: PHP vs. JVM

By michael | Published: 29 Apr 2010

I am reviewing web frameworks for product development at Resource Interactive. Here are my thoughts. Please keep this in mind when reading the following: ALL of the statements below are OPINIONS. Please feel free to disagree. Problem We’ve been using CakePHP for 6 months, but recently it has been getting in our way on a [...]

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DBSlayer

By michael | Published: 3 Feb 2010

Link: DBSlayer The New York Times’ JSON interface/proxy for MySQL. Brilliant! A lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP, meaning it’s simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework [...]

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HipHop for PHP

By michael | Published: 3 Feb 2010

Link: HipHop for PHP Facebook’s PHP to C++ source code transformer released with open source license! HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — [...]

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By michael | Published: 8 Apr 2009

Improving Running Components at Twitter by [Evan Weaver](http://blog.evanweaver.com/)

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