Some quite interesting stats of the cost of monetization with the ratio of scaling in different platforms.

But I’m not so sure, why it includes web servers (Nginx, Apache), languages (PHP) and web frameworks (Rails, Django, Mochiweb, Jetty) as a single group, doesn’t make sense.

http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/01/12/rough-estimates-of-the-dollar-cost-of-scaling-web-platforms-part-i

No doubt, visualization is the best way to extract effectiveness of any data set.

And if you love visualized data, you will definitely love this:

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For some time, I’ve been digging through Memcached related articles and blog posts over the web in order to understand how people are actually using it. Most of the articles are kinda equivalent. But the use of version in the cache seems more standard and improve form of managing the cache. When, cache keys are managed using version numbers, one does not have to worry about cache conflict issues also that may occur in certain update transactions because Memcached use LRU (Least Recently Used) to remove old cache values.

Here are some links I have gone through:

• http://code.google.com/p/memcached/ (Main resource)
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7451
• http://blog.leetsoft.com/2007/5/22/the-secret-to-memcached
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ha-memcached-faq.html
• http://www.igvita.com/2008/04/22/mysql-conf-memcached-internals/
• http://highscalability.com/strategy-break-memcache-dog-pile
• http://abhinavsingh.com/blog/2009/01/memcached-and-n-things-you-can-do-with-it/

Very good documentary series by BBC regarding history of gold.

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III

One of the greatest obsessions of human beings.

• Your ‘Big Idea’ Sucks
• Detecting global variable leaks
• Security Religions and Risk Windows
• JavaScript based encryption using RSA - Really nice concept
• Authentication in RESTful Systems
• The notion of Stateless in REST Architecture
• How lucky is/will be President Obama
• How people over age 15 spent their time in 2008