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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80 posts.
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You can list a directory containing 8 million files But not with ls..
I needed to list all files in a directory, but ls , find , and os.listdir all hung. This is my story.
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How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS
There has been some recent confusion about how much memory you need in a web server to handle a huge number of concurrent requests. I also made a performance claim on the STS list that got me an unusual number of private emails.
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Why Reddit was down for 6 hours
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot
After reading a report yesterday saying that Rackspace cloud servers were a better deal than Amazon's, I decided to check it out today.
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Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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Continuous Deployment
Last winter John Allspaw joined Etsy to run tech ops. John has written several important books on web ops and is one of the experts in operating large scale web services. One of the first things John did when he arrived at Etsy is work with the dev and ops teams to put in place […]
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