http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-03T20:42:55+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-03T20:42:55+00:002009-04-03T20:42:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/3/iddb/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.digg.com/?p=607">Introducing Digg&#x27;s IDDB Infrastructure</a></strong></p> IDDB is Digg’s new infrastructure component for sharding data across multiple databases, with support for both MySQL and memcachedb. “The DiggBar and URL minifying service is powered by a 16 machine IDDB cluster, which includes 8 write masters in the index and 8 MySQL storage nodes.” <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/databases">databases</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iddb">iddb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/joe-stump">joe-stump</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memcachedb">memcachedb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mysql">mysql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharding">sharding</a></p>

2007-12-15T12:29:07+00:002007-12-15T12:29:07+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/15/programming/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://programming.reddit.com/info/62zuw/comments">Techniques for safely consuming external HTTP on demand?</a></strong></p> I asked this question on programming.reddit.com yesterday and got some really insightful answers, including Joe Stump from Digg describing how Digg Images uses Danga’s Gearman worker queue. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/askreddit">askreddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/danga">danga</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gearman">gearman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/joe-stump">joe-stump</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/queue">queue</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/reddit">reddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/workers">workers</a></p>