Simon Willison’s Weblog

Ravelry. Tim Bray interviews Casey Forbes, the single engineer behind Ravelry, the knitting community that serves 10 million Rails requests a day using just seven physical servers, MySQL, Sphinx, memcached, nginx, haproxy, passenger and Tokyo Cabinet.

# 3rd September 2009, 6:50 pm / caseyforbes, haproxy, memcached, mysql, nginx, passenger, rails, ravelry, scaling, sphinx-search, tim-bray, tokyocabinet, tokyotyrant

ericflo’s django-tokyo-sessions. A Django sessions backend using Tokyo Cabinet, via Tokyo Tyrant and the PyTyrant library. A fast key/value store is a much better solution for sessions than a relational database.

# 7th May 2009, 7:30 am / databases, django, eric-florenzano, keyvaluestores, pytyrant, sessions, tokyocabinet, tokyotyrant

Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Tyrant Presentation. By Tokyo Cabinet author Mikio Hirabayashi. The third leg of the Tokyo tripod is Tokyo Dystopia, a full-text search engine which is presumably a modern replacement for Mikio’s older hyperestraier engine.

# 14th February 2009, 11:34 am / full-text-search, hyperestraier, mikiohirabayashi, tokyocabinet, tokyodystopia, tokyotyrant

Tokyo Tyrant Tutorial. Buried at the bottom of the Tokyo Tyrant protocol documentation, this is the best resource I’ve seen yet for getting up and running with the database server (including setting up replication).

# 14th February 2009, 11:29 am / databases, keyvaluepairs, replication, tokyocabinet, tokyotyrant

pytyrant. A pure-python client library for the Tokyo Tyrant binary protocol (used to access Tokyo Cabinet databases over a network). The library appears to be developed by Bob Ippolito and the team at Mochi Media.

# 14th February 2009, 11:19 am / bobippolito, mochimedia, python, pytyrant, tokyocabinet, tokyotyrant