7th March, 2013 by David Mytton
In February 2012 we moved into our custom built office in London, UK. 1 year later, what did we learn, what did we change and how does it look now? Read more
28th February, 2013 by David Mytton
How to configure nginx web server as a load balancer with suggestions for nginx conf options for logging, backend, upstream load balancer. Read more
21st February, 2013 by David Mytton
Schemaless doesn't mean you can ignore MongoDB schema design. A technical look at common MongoDB schema design pitfalls and how to avoid them. Read more
14th February, 2013 by David Mytton
How can a failed payment or expired credit card bring down your entire business? Have you considered billing as a single point of failure? Read more
7th February, 2013 by David Mytton
It's not the initial development time that causes delays, it's when you come to deploy to product that the real problems get discovered. Read more
31st January, 2013 by pessoa
How to deploy Nginx with Puppet using Puppet Forge Nginx modules, plus some tweaks to allow parameterized configuration from the Puppet Enterprise console. Read more
29th January, 2013 by David Mytton
The advantages of using Google+ integrated into other Google Apps for internal discussions and debates, link sharing and asking questions. Read more
24th January, 2013 by David Mytton
How we handle on call schedules to prevent fatigue and deal with rotations and escalations. We even have designers + product engineers available. Read more
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- How to use MongoDB as a pure in-memory DB (Redis style)
- Managing multiple MongoDB clusters with chef
- Redis partial word match, you (auto)complete me
- Cassandra anti-patterns: Queues and queue-like datasets
- 2 advanced techniques to dramatically increase the performance of your responsive website
- Google’s buildings are hackable
- DevOps and cloud: A view from outside the Bay Area bubble
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