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One more LJ Scaling Storytime

Sergey Chernyshev — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:52:54 +0000

One more LJ Scaling Storytime by Brad Fitzpatrick with more slides about memcached and Perlbal.

Sergey Chernyshev — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:08:56 +0000

Another presentation by Brad Fitzpatrick about LiveJournal – this time in English only.

Sergey Chernyshev — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:22:33 +0000

Presentation about history of LiveJournal scaling by Brad Fitzpatrick, given at YAPC Asia (Tokyo) on Apr 05, 2007 (video, slides).

Brad talks about clustering setups using MySQL and DRDB and their software: memcached, Perlbal, MogileFS, Gearman, TheSchwartz, DJabberd

Sergey Chernyshev — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:06:18 +0000

Presentation about Six Apart’s object-relational driver Data::ObjectDriver by Benjamen Trott at OSCON 2006 on July 27th 2006 (slides)

Sergey Chernyshev — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:40:30 +0000

By Tim Bray at Ruby conference 2006 on October 20-22, 2006 (PDF).

Sergey Chernyshev — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:31:17 +0000

Presentation by Larry Wall at OSDC::Isreal::2006 about Perl 5 and Perl 6 and Perl in general (gzipped PPT, mp3, transcript)

Some quotes:

Irrationalities in Other Languages (5:54)
- “If I wanted it fast, I’d write it in C” – That’s almost a direct quote from the original awk page.
- “I thought of a way to do it so it must be right” – That’s obviously PHP. (laughter and applause
Now, we’re changing from arrow to dot, because … because … Well, just ‘cuz I said so!