Simon Willison’s Weblog

Dissecting today’s Internet traffic spikes (via) Theo Schlossnagle on how the increasing popularity of interest aggregation services such as Digg and Reddit result in traffic spikes that dwarf the old Slashdot effect, making a the old rules of thumb for capacity planning irrelevant.

# 29th June 2008, 2:12 pm / capacityplanning, digg, reddit, scaling, slashdotting, theoschlossnagle

Capacity Planning for LAMP (via) John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr).

# 27th April 2007, 8:41 pm / capacityplanning, flickr, john-allspaw, mysql, scaling