Archive for February, 2009
Steve Williams from Digg pays a visit…
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Steve Williams, the second employee hired on at digg, came by our class today and gave a lecture. I really enjoyed the lecture. There were tons of new problems and thoughts that he introduced about running a big distributed system like digg. One thing I was really surprised about is that when your systems are [...]
JRS AWS
Monday, February 2nd, 2009For one of my classes this semester we are using AWS to create a distributed web application for pictures. I started a blog about so that I can fulfill the class requirement for a blog about it plus it really helps to remember the problems that I have had to fight through. Anyway, if you [...]