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High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
distributed… owning our data… etc. *sigh*Growing at over 30% a month has not been without challenges. Some reliability problems among them. It helps to realize that Tumblr operates at surprisingly huge scales: 500 million page views a day, a peak rate of ~40k requests per second, ~3TB of new data to store a day, all running on 1000+ servers.
January 2012
Anomareh/mynt - GitHub
mynt Another static site generator? With the ever growing population of static site generators, all filling a certain need, I've yet to find one that allows the generation of anything but the simplest of blogs. That's where mynt comes in, being designed to give you all the features of a CMS with none of the often rigid implementations of those features.
What the $%@! is SPDYblog.nodejitsu.com - scaling node.js applications one callback at a time.
The growing interest in both the SPDY protocol and Node.js created the need for a stable Node.js SPDY module when the first version was released last year.
One year of books
November 2011
.toolbox
NEW Windows Phone 7 Codenamed "Mango" Tutorials Live! These new tutorials will guide you in creating "Mango" applications using Expression Blend and Silverlight. Take a look! We're growing! We're happy to share with you that 32,000 students from 181 countries have joined .toolbox. If you haven't joined, sign in and get started!
July 2011
June 2011
The Pitfall of Customizability in UI Design | KaishinLab
How Apple’s iCloud Will Rain On Google’s Parade
Welcome to Unlimited IM Software
May 2011
Aperture | Presetpond | free Lightroom and Aperture presets - Part 2
April 2011
Use Appcelerator Titanium to build mobile apps for iPhone & Android and desktop apps for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux from Web technologies
Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors : NPR
the need for a product vs the cost of its productionOne of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA, which installed them in the space Shuttle and the space station Mir in the 1990s as part of its experiment with microgravity.
Use Appcelerator Titanium to build mobile apps for iPhone & Android and desktop apps for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux from Web technologies
March 2011
Touch Press - Home
Mobify—The Leading Mobile Web Platform for E-commerce & Publishing
fantastic journal: the urban picturesque
Our cities are growing. Growing, that is, in the horticultural sense.
CamanJS - Image Manipulation in Javascript
CamanJS is very easy to extend with new filters and plugins, and it comes with a wide array of image editing functionality, which is only growing as the community makes more plugins.
CamanJS - Image Manipulation in Javascript
CamanJS is very easy to extend with new filters and plugins, and it comes with a wide array of image editing functionality, which is only growing as the community makes more plugins.
Your Time Zone or Mine? A Study of Globally Time Zone-Shifted Collaboration - Microsoft Research
We conducted interviews with sixteen members of teams that worked across global time zone differences. Despite time zone differences of about eight hours, collaborators still found time to synchronously meet. The interviews identified the diverse strategies teams used to find time windows to interact, which often included times outside of the normal workday and connecting from home to participate. Recent trends in increased work connectivity from home and blurred boundaries between work and home enabled more scheduling flexibility. While email use was understandably prevalent, there was also general interest in video, although obstacles remain for widespread usage. We propose several design implications for supporting this growing population of workers that need to span global time zone differences.
November 2010
October 2010
The Rise of the Arctic - WSJ.com
Already the New North possesses a sprinkle of sizable settlements from which to grow. Their biggest hubs—like Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Seattle, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Ottawa, Reykjavik, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Moscow— are growing fast and attract many foreign immigrants today.
PttP oct 2010 – The gamification of life « Michel Reilhac
September 2010
Other Edition | Reading Room
Pixelated or fuzzy icons in Snow Leopard | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews
August 2010
(Infographic) Sharing Is Contagious - PSFK
Pas sûr de savoir ce que cela me dit.Author Rachel Botsman has created a useful infographic that charts the growth of digital sharing from the 1960’s all the way through 2010. In the graphic, she connects things as disparate as Facebook and farmer’s markets, telling the story of the growing culture of sharing, from ARPANET to Tumblr.

