Who will pay the messengers?

11.13.09 Posted in Personal by Max

Fol­low­ing are my notes from the “Jour­nal­ism and the New Media Ecol­ogy: Who will pay the mes­sen­gers?” con­fer­ence hosted by Yale Law School and the Yale Infor­ma­tion Soci­ety Project.

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Courant News: Caching

11.07.09 Posted in Courant News by Max

The key to per­for­mance for high-traffic web­sites is caching. Face­book is famous for being a pro­lific mem­cached user, with 28 ter­abytes of mem­cached servers as of Decem­ber 2008. Part of why the Yale Daily News was able to sur­vive mas­sive traf­fic spikes dur­ing the Annie Le cov­er­age was our judi­cious use of caching. Read on to learn more about the caching strate­gies employed by the Courant News platform.

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