mike | Shared With: Everyone - 9 days ago | counter, appengine, scalability, sharding
Slide 17 starts the section on building a Sharded Counter in AppEngine.
Quoted: Session videos and presentation slides from Google I/O
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 28 2008 | xmpp, twitter, scalability
Quoted: A component is a trusted piece of an XMPP server that can send and receive arbitrary stanzas. Components speak a different protocol to communicate with the server. Because the name of a component is a domain (example: arbiter.chesspark.com), a component can pretend to be many users. Any stanza addressed to user@component.server.com will be delivered to component.server.com no matter what the value is of ‘user’.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 17 2008 | twitter, data center, scalability
The Twitter "Fail Whale"
Quoted: Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time
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