November 2010
Smarter web hosting - WebFaction
by Spone & 6 others
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October 2010
Tweet Nest
by piouPiouM & 4 others
A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets
Yoshinori Matsunobu's blog: Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server
by ghis & 2 others (via)
Interesting use of MySQL as a NoSQL database, for speed reasons.
Why does Quora use MySQL as the data store rather than NoSQLs such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, etc? - Quora
by ghis (via)
Explanation of Quora founder of the benefits of using MySQL over NoSQL solutions.
September 2010
Tweet Nest
by simon_bricolo & 4 others
a browsable, searchable and customizable archive and backup for your tweets
August 2010
High Scalability - High Scalability - 6 Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning How to Scale the Hard Way
by ghis (via)
Interesting article about scaling a website : caching, alternative webserver, replication, take care of not messing the filesystem, ... The comments are interesting too.
