Tagged “scalability”

1. Avoiding Flat Tires in Your Web Application June 2013

   This Monday, the CitiBike bike share launched in New York City. The website was beautiful and responsive, and more than 15,000 registrations were processed through it before the launch happened.

   But then, a funny thing happened. The website and the mobile apps' maps started coming up blank, and they stayed blank for more than 12 hours. What follows should not be characterized as a failing of the technical team. Launches are tough, and I don't mean to pile on what was obviously a tough situation. Instead, I would like to look at a few choices that were made and how the system might have been better architected for scalability.

2. Coat Your Website in Varnish July 2011

   Last week at the Drupal NYC meetup, I gave a presentation about the Varnish reverse proxy cache.

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