The “Google instant” wasn’t a ground breaking idea by itself. We have all been using various forms of auto-completes for a while now. What makes it stand out is that unlike all the previous kinds of auto-completes, this one is able to search the entire web archive, at an amazing speed and still be able [...]

Interesting observations/thoughts on  web operations collected from a few sessions at Velocity conference 2010 [ most are from a talk by Theo Schlossnagle, author of “Scalable internet architectures” ] Optimization Don’t over optimize. Could take away precious resources away from critical functions.  Don’t scale early. Planning for more than 10 times the load you currently [...]

While efficient automated deployment tools like Puppet and Capistrano are a big step in the right direction, its not the complete solution for an automated deployment process. This post will explore some of the less discussed issues which are as important for automated, fast, repeatable scalable deployments.  Rapid Build and Integration with tests Use Source [...]