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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: scalability</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/scalability.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-11-04T23:12:17+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>UK Scale Camp</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/4/ukscalecamp/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-11-04T23:12:17+00:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T23:12:17+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/4/ukscalecamp/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/uk-scale-camp"&gt;UK Scale Camp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
We’re hosting a one day web performance and scalability unconference at the Guardian on the 4th of December. If you’re involved in running a high-scale website in the UK (or abroad) we’d love you to come along. Spaces are going fast.


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</summary><category term="events"/><category term="guardian"/><category term="performance"/><category term="scalability"/><category term="ukscalecamp"/><category term="unconference"/></entry><entry><title>Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/3/google/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-10-03T22:00:43+00:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T22:00:43+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/3/google/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://aralbalkan.com/1504"&gt;Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Aral Balkan describes a number of critical issues with App Engine. If you’re considering building something serious on it you need to read this article; I’ve run in to several of these problems myself just running toy projects on the platform. Here’s hoping they get addressed in the near future.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aral-balkan"&gt;aral-balkan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google"&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-app-engine"&gt;google-app-engine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scalability"&gt;scalability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="aral-balkan"/><category term="google"/><category term="google-app-engine"/><category term="scalability"/></entry><entry><title>Google Seattle conference on scalability</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/10/seattle/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-03-10T16:37:50+00:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T16:37:50+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/10/seattle/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2007/02/seattle-conference-on-scalability.html"&gt;Google Seattle conference on scalability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Google are hosting a conference on scalability in Seattle on June 23rd. They’ve just put out the CfP.


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