To scale at Digg they followed a set of practices very similar to those used at eBay. No joins, no foreign key constraints (to scale writes), primary key look-ups only, limited range queries, and joins were done in memory. When implementing the comment feature a 4,000 percent increase in performance was created by sorting in PHP instead… DIGG: 4000% PERFORMANCE INCREASE BY SORTING IN PHP RATHER THAN MYSQL">Read more »
Monthly Archives:: March 2010
iPlayPhone is Free!!
In celebration of one year in the app store iPlayPhone is now free!!! [iTunes Link]
Link Love or Holy Crap Sites Keep Linking iPlayPhone
I want to shout out a couple of the sites that have been promoting iPlayPhone recently. Matt Howie — creator of metafilter - gave iPlayPhone mention in his roundup of Recommended Kid Games. AssociatedContent — a site I’d never heard of, but one that evidently gets over 24,000,000 visitors per month — ranked iPlayPhone #2 “Best Phone… Read more »