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But will it scale?

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I am very pleased to announce the availibility of the Hypothetical Megastructure “but will it scale” t-shirt.

The t-shirt provdes the wearer with the following powers:

Effortlessly win any technical discussion instantly!
Impress your friends!
Immediately dismiss any rival language or framework!

“BUT WILL IT SCALE“?

Available in LARGE, EXTRA-LARGE, GRID, and the apparently defunct N-TIER.

I like to wear mine in a cluster (simply buy two or more t-shirts and wear simultaneously).

Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scalability, Software Engineering, Technology, Web 2.0 | 6 Comments »

Amazon SimpleDB: death of the database?

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Posted in Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Facebook API, MySQL, Scalability | 3 Comments »

Everything you know about scaling is wrong

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Posted in Development, PHP, Programming, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scalability, Software Engineering, Technology, User-experience, Web 2.0 | 5 Comments »