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Digg, An Infrastructure in Transition

Presented by Joe Stump on Mar 13, 2009

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Architecture
Topics
Performance & Scalability
Tags
Scalability ,
Web 2.0 ,
QCon San Francisco 2008 ,
QCon ,
MySQL
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Summary
In this presentation recorded during QCon SF 2008, Joe Stump, Lead Architect at Digg.com, talks about Digg.com’s architecture, the challenges faced, the solutions adopted, and the lessons learned running a large web site.

Bio
Joe Stump is the Lead Architect of Digg. He's responsible for making sure the applications built at Digg will scale into infinity and beyond. For the last 10 years he's specialized in building highly scalable LAMP solutions. When not working on Digg he spends time maintaining a number of PEAR projects and explores San Francisco.

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Superb! by Aayush Puri Posted Jul 8, 2009 1:41 AM

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    Superb!

    Jul 8, 2009 1:41 AM by Aayush Puri

    Joe Stump is just too good - the presentation is informative (very) + entertaining at the same time!

    One suggestion though, which I guess many people have already asked for) - InfoQ should put the PPTs for download. It is very easy to go over and recall stuff just going through the PPT rather than viewing the video again.

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