So Dunxu came through, he had a project idea.  Its a pretty awesome idea too!  Not that I’ll share it with you yet, but you will see it eventually.  Now instead of going out at night, I’ll just be hacking away at my desk.  It will definitely save me money, I guess I’ll still show up at the analyst happy hours.  (And pretty much whenever my friends go out…)

Technologies I’m planning on using in one place or another:

ruby on rails – web frontend, so far its pretty easy to hack in…

erlang – powering some more compute intensive operations using mapreduce potentially spawned over a compute grid, but only if the site takes off.

python – because why not, its fast enough and plays well with others, its my project and I’ll hack it together however I want!

Amazon AWS – eventually…

memcached – used pretty much everywhere, databases are too slow for popular lookups…

Some database system, but I’m not sure which yet, but it will be behind the cache.  I’m thinking maybe ErlyDB or CouchDB.  As I said earlier, its my project and I’ll hack it together however I want.

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Tags: Amazon AWS,CouchDB,erlang,ErlyDB,Facebook Auth,JSON,MapReduce,Memcached,OpenID,python,Ruby,Ruby on Rails,SOA,SOAP
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Ok, so anyone who knows me, knows that I’m a hacker at heart.  I love hacking out new projects, and learning a few lessons from them.  Then I usually start tweaking them, lose interest, and move onto something else (e.g. Biographiki, College-Ink, My various attempts at timesharing router labs…)

So here are my technology ideas:

erlang – Yes, Liron – I am finally coming around and I’ll admit that erlang is pretty awesome.  Its massively scalable and who doesnt love functional programming…  Erlyweb seems like the framework to use, ErlyDB is probably my best bet too.  Maybe something p2p.

oCaml – Its the best ML .  Once again, who doesn’t love functional programming…

python – Its fast enough, and really fast to code in.  I like how indentation actually matters.  I’ve heard good things about django, and can run it on Google’s App Engine.  (I’m getting sick of hearing the word app though, Apple ruined it)

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Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability.

A great video on scalability and how Youtube built a site with 4 or 5 smart people that scaled incredibly well.

Cuong Do speaks about the problems they faced, the hacks they tried, and the eventual elegant solution they implemented and still run using.

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