What root never told you
While in L.A. at SCALE, I attended "Admin++, What root Never Told You," by Ron Gorodetzky, sysadmin for Digg.com and Revision3. His presentation gave some insight and tidbits on the things you forget when you have your own startup, and the other problems you enounter. Things like scaling, availability, power, managed server, co-location, datacenter etc.. He made a point to monitor your monitoring station -- because you don't get pages, doesn't mean everything is just dandy. Ron also pointed everyone to the document on upgrading LiveJournal's backend, to get a picture of what it's like to design a scalable architecture. I read this document a while back when I was first learning computer networking and security, and it blew my mind away. I never fathomed the amount of work that goes into these sites. I wonder how Building Scalable Web Sites is when it comes to desiging large web sites.
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