On: Scale Fail (part 1)

[asymptotic]

This is a phenomenal article. After wading through bullshit "X HTTP server beats Y HTTP server at serving 40 bytes of static content!!!" articles this is a breath of fresh air. This is clearly written by someone working in the real world.

[krakensden → asymptotic]

LWN is pretty great, I'm quite happy I bought a subscription. Very few other publications will have long articles with diagrams explaining a kernel memory corruption bug a day after it happens.

[michaelchisari → krakensden]

Honestly, I'd consider getting a subscription just for this:

"When I was at Amazon, we used a squid reverse proxy ..."

"Dan, you were an ad sales manager at Amazon."