Author: Ryan Neudorf
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DIGG: 4000% PERFORMANCE INCREASE BY SORTING IN PHP RATHER THAN MYSQL
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…
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iPlayPhone is Free!!
In celebration of one year in the app store iPlayPhone is now free!!! [iTunes Link]
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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…
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Most Infuriating Website Error Message Ever
“If you are … still having problems, please call your cable provider for help.” Good luck with that.
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The King of Winnipeg
Non-Ironic Wolf Shirt, Burton Cummings