Scaling Lesson #23742
GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not…
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GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not…
Over the past several weeks I've been working on a secret Erlang project that will allow us to grow GitHub in new and novel ways. The project is called egitd…
One of the slowest things you can do in Ruby is shell out to the operating system. As a contrived example, let's open an empty file 1,000 times: >> require…
We'll have an hour or two of downtime tonight around midnight PST while the awesome dudes at Engine Yard upgrade our disk capacity. Thanks, see you on the flip side.