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Facebook engineering notes on Scaling Out

Jason Sobel of Facebook explains a couple of tricks they use to deal with consistency between their California and Virginia data centres. The first is to hijack the MySQL replication stream to include information about memcached records to invalidate; the second is to use Layer 7 load balancers which inspect a “last modification time” cookie [...]

Posted 21 August 2008 † Brajeshwar § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Explaining REST to Damien Katz

Damien Katz recently caused a stir with his post entitled REST, I just don’t get it. Someone did an explanation for him.

Posted 18 August 2008 † Brajeshwar § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Django 1.0 beta 1 released

Django 1.0 Beta 1 is released today in accordance with the Django 1.0 release roadmap. The next release — Django 1.0 RC is scheduled for 21st August, 2008 — and the final Django 1.0 for 2nd September, 2008.

The Good thing is that our beta releases are well in-lined with Django releases and we should be [...]

Posted 15 August 2008 † Brajeshwar § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

All set to move to Slicehost

Fixed all outstanding issues on Slicehost just now. We are now all set to move to Slicehost. Yay!

Posted 15 August 2008 † Baishampayan Ghose § Development § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Web Design Curriculum Framework

The Web Standards Project (WaSP) Education Task Force has announced that it will create a curriculum framework for educational institutions and aspiring web professionals.

Posted 15 August 2008 † Brajeshwar § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1

The YUI Team have released YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1. Docs, Downloads and more in the release notes.

Posted 14 August 2008 † Brajeshwar § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Keyczar

Keyczar is an open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications. Keyczar supports authentication and encryption with both symmetric and asymmetric keys.

Posted 13 August 2008 † Brajeshwar § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Linus Torvalds talks about GIT

Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.

Posted 13 August 2008 † Brajeshwar § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: