It’s a new feature! I spend way too much time reading interesting papers… I should not be so selfish as to not share them. Steve Yegge’s ramblings will enlighten you or depress you, but at least they are enjoyable. There, on my list, right under Joel Spolsky (all-time Nerd Superstar). Clustering and Cloud Computing The Helmer Cluster, but only because [...]

A quick note: I was reading Techcrunch earlier today, when I realized that I could not reconcile their post “Twitter at scale: Will it work?” with my views on how to build a scalable application. Nick Cubrilovic contends that “Every new Twitter user and every new connection results in an exponentially greater computational requirement.” And yet, I fail to see [...]