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ideal hdtv settings for xbox 360
26 days ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
My XBox 360 broke, and since my new one supported HDMI, I reworked the connection to the TV (a Samsung PN50A450 plasma). It’s tricky to get the best...
memcached gem performance across VMs
5 months ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
Thanks to Evan Phoenix, memcached.gem 1.3.2 is compatible with Rubinius again. I have added Rubinius to the release QA, so it will stay this way. The master...
simplicity
6 months ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
Maximizing simplicity is the only guaranteed way to minimize software maintenance. Other techniques exist, but are situational. No complex system will be...
performance engineering at twitter
9 months ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
A few weeks ago I gave a performance engineering talk at QCon Beijing/Tokyo. The abstract and slides are below. abstract Twitter has undergone exponential...
distributed systems primer, updated
over 1 year ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
Well, it’s been a long time. But! I have four papers to add to my original distributed systems primer: coordination CRDTs: Consistency Without Concurrency...
distributed systems primer, updated
over 1 year ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
Well, it’s been a long time. But! I have five papers to add to my original distributed systems primer: coordination CRDTs: Consistency Without Concurrency...
object allocations on the web
over 2 years ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
How many objects does a Rails request allocate? Here are Twitter’s numbers: API: 22,700 objects per request Website: 67,500 objects per request Daemons...
object allocations on the web
over 2 years ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
How many objects does a Rails request allocate? Here are Twitter’s numbers: API: 22,700 objects per request Website: 67,500 objects per request Daemons...
scribe client
over 2 years ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
I’ve released Scribe 0.1, a Ruby client for the Scribe remote log server. sudo gem install scribe Usage is simple: client = Scribe.new client.log...
scribe client
over 2 years ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
I’ve released Scribe 0.1, a Ruby client for the Scribe remote log server. sudo gem install scribe Usage is simple: client = Scribe.new client.log...
