Tag: digg

  • Back in the RSSR

    Back in the RSSR

    My reddit account just turned 8 this year, in that time the more I visited reddit, the less I checked RSS feeds. To the point where I completely stopped reading them after Google killed reader. Reddit was where I got all my news and that was fine. But over the years – I don’t know if…


  • 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…


  • Digg Launches Firefox 3 Toolbar

    This might actually get me using digg again. We’ll see. Install link here. Digg Firefox 3 Extension from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.