Comments on: Making a site faster by removing machines http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/ Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:13:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Diagonal scaling and the law of diminishing returns « Clarification http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-7302 Diagonal scaling and the law of diminishing returns « Clarification Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:35:05 +0000 http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/#comment-7302 [...] Diagonal scaling is making a site faster by removing machines. The term was created by John Allspaw, the operations manager of Flickr, who replaced 67 dual-cpu boxes with 18 dual quad-core machines and recovered almost 4x rack space and re... [...] [...] Diagonal scaling is making a site faster by removing machines. The term was created by John Allspaw, the operations manager of Flickr, who replaced 67 dual-cpu boxes with 18 dual quad-core machines and recovered almost 4x rack space and re… [...]

]]> By: Bob Plankers http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Bob Plankers Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:15:27 +0000 http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/#comment-932 Not only more performance per machine, but fewer parts to fail, fewer warranties and licenses to pay for, fewer OSes to patch, etc. Very cool. Not only more performance per machine, but fewer parts to fail, fewer warranties and licenses to pay for, fewer OSes to patch, etc. Very cool.

]]> By: allspaw http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-910 allspaw Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:03:01 +0000 http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/#comment-910 yeah...the old boxes were dual CPU, and the new ones are dual quad CPUs. :) yeah…the old boxes were dual CPU, and the new ones are dual quad CPUs. :)

]]> By: Tom Allender http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-909 Tom Allender Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:56:54 +0000 http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/#comment-909 Quad-code boxes or chips? (can you even get quad-core AMD chips?) Anyhow, that graph is super. Quad-code boxes or chips? (can you even get quad-core AMD chips?)

Anyhow, that graph is super.

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