If you’re a retailer running a home-grown e-commerce stack, your engineers will enjoy and benefit from Cal Henderson’s “Building Scalable Web Sites”.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | January 24, 2008 | leave a comment
Amusing: hacking Google analytics via Yahoo pipes.
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posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | March 12, 2007 | 2 comments
If your own IT wizards are responsible for the care and feeding of your web app databases, I highly recommend this series of fascinating posts on database strategy put up by O’Reilly last spring. Tim O’Rielly interviewed prominent web sites on the nuts and bolts of their database approaches.
Category Business, Code, Web Marketing | Tagged amazon, BigTable, Bloglines, Brian-Aker, Business, Code, craigslist, Findory, flickr, Google-File-System, Memeorandum, mysql, NASA-World-Wind, OReilly-Research, orielly, second-life