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November 2012

October 2012

JMeter Cloud Testing

by Spone
BlazeMeter is a 100% Apache JMeter™ compatible, self-service, load & performance testing cloud. Instantly generate massive stress tests with comprehensive reporting & analysis tools. Try it now - it's free to start.

Data Modeling in Performant Systems // RailsTips by John Nunemaker

by Spone
I have been working on Words With Friends, a high traffic app, for over six months. Talk about trial by fire. I never knew what scale was. Suffice to say that I have learned a lot.

toystore: Ruby mapper for key-value data stores, and darn near anything - The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.

by Spone
NewToy (now Zynga with Friends) the folks that brought you the wildly popular mobile game Words With Friends, also have served up some open source code for your enjoyment. John Nunemaker and Geoffrey Dagley have created Toy Store, an ORM that promises to let you completely change your data store in a couple lines of code.

August 2012

cdnjs - the missing cdn

by Xavier Lacot
A CDN for js libraries, hosted and maintained by CloudFlare

July 2012

June 2012

May 2012

Faye: Simple pub/sub messaging for the web

by Xavier Lacot
A publish-subscribe messaging system, which provides message servers for both Node.js and Ruby. Clients are available for all the major typical consumers. The full stack implements several protocols, and comes with a wide range of adapters.

April 2012

A Faster Emulator with Better Hardware Support | Android Developers Blog

by Xavier Lacot
Android unveiled yesterday a new GPU-enabled version of the Android emulator, which will help make Android dev faster, smoother and more productive.

March 2012

Experiences with Node.js: Porting a RESTful Service Written in Java - ZiggyTech

by night.kame

After more research and swapping out modules, the bottleneck was narrowed down to the Sequelize ORM. A direct correlation was identified between the number of records and the throughput from the resource. By increasing the number of records in a table, it exponentially decreased the throughput of data when using Sequelize.

On comprend mieux pourquoi les révolutionnaires se concentrent sur le NoSQL : c'est qu'ils ont du mal avec le SQL :-)

February 2012

High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter

by night.kame & 1 other

Node.js wasn’t selected because it is easier to scale the team with a JVM base. Node.js isn’t developed enough to have standards and best practices, a large volume of well tested code. With Scala you can use all the Java code. There’s not a lot of knowledge of how to use it in a scalable way and they target 5ms response times, 4 9s HA, 40K requests per second and some at 400K requests per second. There’s a lot in the Java ecosystem they can leverage.