Handling Growth with Postgres: 5 Tips From Instagram - Instagram Engineering
Link: Handling Growth with Postgres: 5 Tips From Instagram - Instagram Engineering: "As we’ve scaled Instagram to an ever-growing number of active users, Postgres has continued to be our solid foundation and the canonical data storage for most of the data created by our users. While less than a year ago, we blogged about how we “stored a lot of data” at Instagram at 90 likes per second, we’re now pushing over 10,000 likes per second at peak–and our fundamental storage technology hasn’t changed."
Harney & Sons Fine Teas - Master Tea Blenders
Link: Harney & Sons Fine Teas - Master Tea Blenders: "Great quality tea"
Helium - Where Knowledge Rules
Link: Helium - Where Knowledge Rules: "something between wikipedia and what.com"
Hello from Kuby | Kuby
Link: Hello from Kuby | Kuby: "Looks like another wonderful rails deployment solution. Definitely will check this out as an alternative to Heroku."
Here's Another Inventor Who Willingly Gave Away His Greatest Idea In Order To Establish It As A Global Standard | Techdirt
Link: Here's Another Inventor Who Willingly Gave Away His Greatest Idea In Order To Establish It As A Global Standard | Techdirt: "Here's Another Inventor Who Willingly Gave Away His Greatest Idea In Order To Establish It As A Global Standard"
Heroku Postgres | Heroku Dev Center
Link: Heroku Postgres | Heroku Dev Center: "How to share a postgres database between two separate Heroku applications!"
Hidden jewels of Ruby stdlib
Link: Hidden jewels of Ruby stdlib: "Ruby comes distributed with a vast standard library. We only use a fraction of it, usually. Everyone knows date, set, json, maybe even csv. But there are man..."
Hire People or Optimize Processes: A cost-benefit analysis for engineering leaders
Link: Hire People or Optimize Processes: A cost-benefit analysis for engineering leaders: "Perspective on the payback of hiring more people vs. optimizing Dev process so as to require fewer."