Archive for April, 2007

Twitter performance DB vs Filesystem

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So much has been said about the twitter performance issue I feel I have to follow up some of the points that have been raised.
One comment especially had me ranting at my screen “I am still stunned by this […]

21Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 12 comments | Continued

Ruby on Rails vs PHP Framework - followup

Had two great comments on my post Open source Scaling Ruby on Rails vs PHP
This is from topyfunky, read his blog on nubyonrails.
“Rails is in the middle of that same conversion right now. New interpreters are being written that will make it much faster. Commercial vendors such as Sun and Microsoft are coming on board. […]

20Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Do you need triple A* programmers?

I have done a lot of recruitment in my time and at least 80% of it has been recruiting programmers. The reason? finding and (more importantly) identifying good programmers is hard (really hard). I have recently been reading one of Joel Spolsky books and his interview techniques fit with most of my views on the […]

19Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 6 comments | Continued

Microsoft aims to double PC base

Microsoft software will sell for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users. The firm wants to bring computing to a further one billion people by 2015.read more | digg story

19Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Google wants me to swim the Atlantic?

This was on the now show last week, It was about a story of using google maps to plan a journey between New york and London. The end result was that Google Maps wanted you to swim 3,642 miles! Now I don’t even think David Walliams would want to swim that far! but anyway you […]

19Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Open source Scaling Ruby on Rails vs PHP

There has been a lot of talk in the blogsphere about scaling. Most of this have been caused by an interview with Alex Payne where he discusses the problems they have had with scaling up twitter. After reading it you really get the sense that Rails does not currently have any hard/fast answers to the […]

19Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 13 comments | Continued
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