load01 03/27/2012

• High Scalability - High Scalability - 7 Years of YouTube Scalability Lessons in 30 Minutes

  If you started out building a dating site and instead ended up  building a video sharing site (YouTube) that handles 4 billion views a day, then it’s just possible you learned something along the way. And indeed, Mike Solomon, one of the original engineers at YouTube, did learn a lot and he has given a talk about it at PyCon: Scalability at YouTube.

  tags: programming

• HN-prog-lang-poll.png (750×1050)

  Graphical view of HackerNews polls on favorite/ disliked programming languages (attractivechaos.github.com)
  submitted 16 hours ago by attractivechaos
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  tags: programming

• Video game nation: Why so many play - CSMonitor.com

  Gliding through the sky, long neck undulating, great, ridged wings beating, the dragon looks ... beautiful. Until it lands.
  
  Thumbs working the controller, Matt Fries, a freshman at American University in Washington, D.C., throws fireballs at it with both hands. The dragon lifts off, and lands again. It belches out a stream of yellow and orange flame.

  tags: news

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