Via kottke: some good examples of doing rough math in your head, causing you to guess about assumptions all along the way.
IMHO, being able to do this is one of the things that makes a good web ops person. The examples might be “useless”, but the process is invaluable.
Entries from September 2008
More back-of-envelope-math…
September 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: "capacity planning" · random · webops
Internet-Scale Efficiency
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments
James Hamilton’s excellent LADIS 2008 presentation has lots of great stuff in it about internet scale bits. Cool stats.
Tags: "capacity planning" · webops
Why we use GraphicsMagick
September 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments
Speed: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/BENCHMARKS.html
Also, it looks like the GM devs are working on getting OpenMP (parallelism) put into GM processing, which will be a huge boom for multicore boxes. Yay!
Tags: tools



