Here are the slides from my talk at the Velocity Conference.
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Slides from Velocity
June 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Squid patch for making “time” stats more meaningful.
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Thanks to Mark, squid’s got a patch I’ve been wanting for a gazillion years: time-to-serve statistics that don’t include the client’s location
http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2345
Normally, squid’s kept statistics that included the “time” to serve an object, whether it be a HIT, MISS, NEAR HIT, etc. The clock starts for this time when the first headers are received by [...]
Tags: caching · flickr · webops
Flickr’s hiring a dba.
January 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments
(Only hardworking supernerds should apply)
We’re looking for an experienced and motivated MySQL DBA to help make things go at Flickr.
Stuff you’ll do:
• Work with engineers on performance tuning, query optimization, index tuning.
• Monitor databases for problems and to diagnose where those problems are.
• Work with developers and operations to maintain a scalable, reliable, and robust [...]
Making a site faster by removing machines
August 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments
(well, not really)
A little while ago, in one of our clusters we replaced a boatload of PowerEdge 1425 webserver-class boxes with a much smaller number of HP DL145 G3 quad-core boxes, getting the same amount of oomph from 1/3 the boxes. Not too bad.
Tags: "capacity planning" · flickr
Varnish and the state of web caching
December 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments
So there’s lots of excitement around Varnish, which is a caching proxy that is built to be first and foremost a reverse-proxy, as opposed to squid, which does both forward and reverse. Acceleration (reverse-proxying) is obviously important to us at Flickr, as we use squid extensively.
Hats and beards
December 12th, 2006 · No Comments
http://flickr.com/photos/allspaw/311471361/
Tags: flickr