Austin Mills: Code, Methodologies, Games, etc.
Posted in Coding, Development Methods on Jun 23rd, 2009
Auren Hoffman has a good post on TechCrunch about how now might be a great time to cherry-pick the best software engineers available, and how it can pay off not only in the short term, but also over the long, to hire high-quality developers and spend money on developing them individually rather than hiring more, [...]
Posted in Coding, Coding Tips on Sep 12th, 2008
After trying some other load-testing tools, I found Tsung, a load-testing application written in Erlang to take advantage of that language’s concurrency support. It scales well (it’s been used to simulate tens of thousands of users), it supports forms and HTTP sessions, and includes some niceties like proxy recording, ‘thinktime’ support, and a choice of [...]
Posted in Coding, Coding Tips on Sep 10th, 2008
So, if you were going to do some load-testing on your Rails app, you might think, hey, Siege is pretty cool. It supports load-testing multiple URLs at once (either sequential or in random order), with a delay in-between, with lots of options for setting the duration and characteristics of the load. Plus, there’s a tool [...]
Posted in Coding on Jun 16th, 2008
Steve Yegge (aka stevey) has a worth-your-while post (and that’s saying something when it’s that long) about dynamic languages in general and Rhino (server-side JavaScript in the JVM) in particular — along with about 10 or 15 tangents along the way.
Posted in Coding, Development Methods on Jun 16th, 2008
InfoQ has a great video interview with Randy Shoup, in charge of search at Ebay, where he talks about several things, including their heavy use of partitioning, the unique issues you run into with such a high volume site, and what’s coming up for them.
Btw, I love InfoQ’s interface for presenting not only the video [...]
Posted in Coding, Coding Tips on Oct 19th, 2007
A friend of mine said this on the way back from lunch today and I had to preserve it for posterity.