Archives for the ‘Building Something Scalable’ Category

Building somethng scalable: language / frameworks aka use ror or php

By admin • Nov 13th, 2008 • Category: Building Something Scalable, php
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I first started this experiment I planned on using a custom php framework. Recently I realized that its kinda pointless to attempt to do something like this and at the same time lock myself into something that may […]

Building Something Scalable: Security

By admin • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Building Something Scalable, how to
This is part 2 of the Building Something Scalable series / experiment: Security. Umm why are you talking about security? Security is part of being scalable, simple. Think about it. If your security is setup decently your servers will ignore more fake / script kiddie request and can use handle more real ones. At the same […]

Time to bite the bullet

By admin • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Building Something Scalable, rants
I currently have 3 vpses. One on Mediatemple and two at linode. Thing is I need at least 3 servers at linode to properly setup the environment for my scaling experiment / future gs setup…. So as of tonight I’m biting the bullet and now own 4 linodes. If all goes well I’ll toss 2-3 more […]

Building Something Scalable: Caching

By admin • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: Building Something Scalable, tech
I’ve been seriously getting my kicks with scalability fora number of months, so why not start on ongoing series where I talk about what I’ve learned / found? So welcome to to the first: Building Something Scalable - An ongoing experiment. This post covers caching. I’ll cover delivery in the next post. Keep in mind language wise […]