by Ray Valdes | February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
Facebook has been able to smoothly scale from, five years ago, a laptop in Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm to 175 million users today. At peak times, the service handles 10 million concurrent users. Facebook photos, just one section of the site, is serving 300,000 images per second at peak. Clearly, the FB engineering team has the [...]
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by Ray Valdes | February 24, 2009 | Comments Off
There are some of us who treat browsers like restaurants or movies — enjoying the latest launch or checking out the newest sequel. The new Apple Safari 4 browser, released in beta form today, is such a treat. Although not without flaws and quirks, it satisfies the need for novelty and whets the appetite in [...]
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by Ray Valdes | February 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Among all the big stories of the past week, a small one that may have escaped your attention is the unfortunate story of Magnolia, a Web 2.0 social bookmarking site which suffered a catastrophic data loss. The events began several weeks ago, but came to a resolution at the end of last week. Magnolia is [...]
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