I like making things go! I currently manage the operations team at Flickr.
I suppose that this blog should probably be about geeky things like web operations, capacity planning, etc.
I’ve given some talks in the past about these things.
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1 Diagonal scaling and the law of diminishing returns « Clarification // Jun 5, 2008 at 12:30 am
[...] 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 [...]
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