Oct 26, 2009

High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. When you are on the bleeding edge of scale like Facebook is, you run into some interesting problems. As of 2008 Facebook had over 800 memcached servers supplying over 28 terabytes of cache. With those staggering numbers it's a fair bet to think they've seen their share of Dr. House worthy memcached problems.Jeff Rothschild, (Read More)

Mar 02, 2009

VentureBeat Gazaro is launching what it calls a personal sales flyer today at the DEMO 2009 conference. Think of it as if it were a paper sales flyer that’s been filtered to include only the best sales on exactly what you want to buy. (Read More)

Sep 17, 2008

Submitted by Dplouffe from Google Reader: Go to Gazaro and create a personal ‘flyer’ of the products you are looking to get great deals onTheir technology scours the web through thousands of stores and looks for sales on those products, sending you an email or rss if or when those items are on sale.Click the link they provide to the product sale and they make money (Read More)

Aug 01, 2008

Submitted by Dplouffe from Google Reader: I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to.Besides the common software development tools, like Visual Studio, SQL Server, Ruby, Office, Firefox, SVN, etc, over the y (Read More)

Aug 01, 2008

Mono Project News Marc Christiensen has announced the release of our first preview for Mono 2.0. You can read our preliminary release notes for this release. The preview release is available from our preview download directory. The source code for this release is available here. Please report any bugs that you may find using our Bugs pa (Read More)

Sep 11, 2008

Submitted by Dplouffe from Google Reader: In case you were wondering if Ottawa had any demoing companies at TechCrunch50 (demo-pit), the answer is yes. Gazaro is a local startup incubated by Apption. Gazaro is all about finding the biggest sales on the internet. The team has a proprietary crawler that keeps track of a large number of online stores and flyers and wi (Read More)

Aug 29, 2008

Submitted by Dplouffe from Google Reader: ScaleOut StateServer is an in-memory distributed cache across a server farm or compute grid. Unlike middleware vendors, StateServer is aims at being a very good data cache, it doesn't try to handle job scheduling as well.StateServer is what you might get when you take Memcached and merge in all the value added distributed (Read More)

Sep 10, 2008

GigaOM All tech startups need just a few ingredients to germinate: sophisticated money; first-rate technology universities; and a few template successes (a Google or a Facebook, and so on) to encourage founders to get off their duffs. Contrary to current wisdom, these ingredients exist in many communities outside of Silicon Valley (Read More)

Aug 05, 2008

High Scalability - Memcached The primero recommendation for speeding up a website is almost always to add cache and more cache. And after that add a little more cache just in case. Memcached is almost always given as the recommended cache to use. What we don't often hear is how to effectively use a cache in our own products. MySQL hosted two excellent (Read More)

Sep 15, 2008

Semantic Web Company The ubiquitous keyword mode of Internet search technique is about to be taken over by a new breed of semantic search technology, according to analysts at research firm Ovum.While keyword search remains the most popular method, it is usually not accurate, with users sometimes getting up to 30,000 hits on a search and then ha (Read More)

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