The site also took an extremely long time to respond for me, which was kind of amusing given the content when it finally did load:
> I know how, when a website is besieged, to shard data onto the cloud, and make endless variety of mirrors, and fault tolerant disks and RAIDs, and other machines pertaining to such concerns.
You should consider using some of those "secrets" on your own site. :)
Edit: site seems to be responding quickly now. Must have been a momentary blockage in the tubes.
You should consider using some of those "secrets" on your own site. :)
Kinda ironic, huh? I made the decision to leave all that dirty work to Posterous, with whom I've been very happy. Every once in a while it gets sluggish. Perhaps one of them will read this and speed it up when no one's looking.
I've heard good things about them too. Probably just some broken widget between my desk in Sydney and their servers somewhere in North America.
I'm kind of interested in the way many of those large-scale sites have to prioritise availability over response time due to their architecture. At least, that seems to be the way services like GAE work. They guarantee uptime, but latency for things like database queries tends to be fixed and not that fast.
What mayhaps be a most terrifying thing, as that I speak as doth say on a regular regimen. I am a member of the court of the SCA(Society for Creative Anachronism), and it takes me great pleasure to admit as such, milord.
Great stuff. We find the style quaint and affected, but this kind of formality permits a greater degree of nuance, and thus penetration of insight, than a simpler style. Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" is an excellent example of how a truly great writer can use language to impart the subtlest concepts to a reader's understanding.
http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resum...
I reposted it on my blog yesterday in anticipation of Leonardo's birthday on April 15.