By Phil Whelan on March 7, 2011
In this post I will look at the technology infrastructure behind Summify.com, a website that strives to make our lives easier and helps us deal with the information overload we all experience every time we sit down at our computers. Summify has aggregated over 200 million stories from the web and serves them up on-demand through a series of different mediums. The website uses Tornado to push real-time updates out to the users and they have developed over a dozen backend systems, some of which I will cover in this blog post.
Posted in Start-Ups, Web Development | Tagged algorithms, amazon ec2, django, gunicorn, guy kawasaki, iphone api, jquery template, json api, mongodb, mysql, nginx, python, redis, slow clients, summify, the long tail, tornado, tornado swirl |
By Phil Whelan on February 14, 2011
In this blog-post Bradford Stephens, Drawn To Scale’s founder, answers a series of technical, business and personal questions to give an overview of what Drawn To Scale is and where it is going. Who are the founders? What is their background, technology and business model? How were they going to manage other people’s big data? Can one tool fit the demands from a broad range of data challenges that different businesses are seeing?
Posted in Interview, NoSQL, Start-Ups | Tagged big data, bradford stephens, business intelligence, cloud-computing, data management, data processing, drawn to scale, ec2, gaming, hadoop, hbase, high scalability, iaas, media, paas, rackspace, social networks, spire, startup
By Phil Whelan on January 31, 2011
In this blog post I will delve into the snippets of information available on Quora and look at Quora from a technical perspective. What technical decisions have they made? What does their architecture look like? What languages and frameworks do they use? How do they make that search bar respond so quickly?
Posted in Start-Ups, Web Development | Tagged adam d'angelo, amazon ec2, aws, charlie cheever, comet, git, haproxy, livenode, long-polling, memcached, mysql, nginx, nosql, paste, pylons, quora, quora.com, search-box, steve souders, technology, thrift, tornado, ubuntu linux, webnode2, webscale |
