Simon Willison’s Weblog

Database Sharding at Netlog, with MySQL and PHP. Detailed MySQL sharding case study from Netlog, who serve five billion page requests a month using thousands of shards across more than 80 database servers.

# 10:22 am / databases, mysql, netlog, php, scaling, sharding

How search.twitter.com uses Varnish. Includes examples of the configuration options they use.

# 5:08 pm / caching, search, twitter, varnish