Codetown
Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Wikipedia Place
Information
We've had a unique opportunity to speak with Brion Vibber recently at the October Orlandojug meeting. Let's discuss what we learned for those who couldn't attend and to expand on what we heard. We'll discuss technical and socio-cultural topics.
Members: 9
Latest Activity: Oct 27, 2011
About Wikipedia Place
Wikipedia is arguably the most popular and high volume site on the web. Brion Vibber has been the tech guy since the start. He described the initial architecture on Swampcast as just a couple of LAMP servers in Tampa. Since then the architecture has evolved and many lessons have been learned.
There are also workflow, ancillary sites, the community aspect and many other aspects of Wikipedia we can learn from and even influence in the future.
(book photo from FromOldBooks)
Discussion Forum
Wikipedia Architecture - High Level View
The Wikipedia website began as a couple of LAMP servers. Brion described the wiki he chose and other details in the…Continue
Tags: vibber, performance, LAMP, swampcast, architecture
Started by Michael Levin Nov 2, 2009.
Wikipedia Place Reading List
Loading feed
Comment Wall
Comment
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
Notes
Welcome to Codetown!
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
Looking for Jobs or Staff?
Check out the Codetown Jobs group.
There's also a free Java Jobs mailing list. It's a Yahoo group so you have to create a Yahoo account to use it.
InfoQ Reading List
Coming Next, JavaScript Private Class Fields & Methods
Private class fields are finally coming to JavaScript with no less than three separate TC39 proposals that define the new capabilities.
By Guy NesherPresentation: High Performance Remote and Distributed Teams
Randy Shoup starts with the organization itself - how to form teams, give them scope, and manage their growth. He discusses communication strategies for getting the best out of far-flung teams, how to foster & maintain the human bonds and empathy critical to good work, and explores the human side. By looking beyond a single physical site, we can find better, more diverse, more motivated employees.
By Randy ShoupGoDaddy Releases Automatic Canary Deployments Tool for Kubernetes
GoDaddy recently released an open-source tool to automate gated deployments in Kubernetes. Every time a deployment happens, the tool can run regression tests, and pull metrics from data backends like New Relic. After some time, the tool decides whether to roll back or continue with the deployment automatically. Users can run A/B tests and run experiments with a small portion of live traffic.
By Christian MelendezPresentation: How to Evolve Kubernetes Resource Management Model
Jiaying Zhang talks about the current Kubernetes resource model and best practice guidance on managing compute resources and specifying application resource requirements on Kubernetes. She discusses some work on extending the Kubernetes resource model to provide better resource isolation, support more diverse hardware, promote consistent application performance across different compute platforms.
By Jiaying ZhangIntroducing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient
Continuing the effort to decouple Microsoft products from .NET Core itself, Microsoft is spinning off their SQL Server drivers into a separate deployment stream. This new package will be called Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and is intended to be a drop-in replacement for System.Data.SqlClient.
By Jonathan Allen
© 2019 Created by Michael Levin.
Powered by
You need to be a member of Wikipedia Place to add comments!