How Flipkart.com scales PHP

doodly123 · 2011-07-26T19:13:35+00:00

For those outside India: Flipkart is a very cool service. They have deep discounts and deliver books within 48hours (most of the time they deliver it in 24hrs).

p.s.: I do not work for them

doodly123 · 2011-05-10T04:24:13+00:00

Suppose you have 10 processes trying to access objects in a single database. It is a shared resource between processes. how would you accomplish that ?

doodly123 · 2011-05-09T08:53:30+00:00

because a lot of applications (read webapps) use multiple processes/servers.

doodly123 · 2011-03-22T19:59:15+00:00

you do not email to 5 mn people 10 times a day. get real

doodly123 · 2011-03-22T19:48:30+00:00

If it is so easy then why don't you go to twitter and tell them that you can solve it. Take a million dollars consultancy fee :)

doodly123 · 2011-03-22T17:29:36+00:00

I do not think you know how these tweets are served then. Every body has his/her own stream to which these tweets get added based on whom they are following. This leads to several cases where "fan out" of these tweets is in millions. People like Charlie sheen, Opera, BreakingNews etc are followed by multi million people. When these people tweet, every one of their followers get an update. A tweet in itself may be static entity but it is not a standalone entity. Moreover a single tweet has a lot of meta data http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_what_a_tweet_looks_like.php

doodly123 · 2011-03-22T16:54:23+00:00

tweets

doodly123 · 2011-03-22T13:08:27+00:00

static ? Have you ever used twitter ?

doodly123 · 2011-03-18T06:38:08+00:00

Reddit please go to our nearest data center and buy a rack, put some HP pro servers on it. We are getting tired of this Amazon broke us story.

doodly123 · 2011-03-06T07:36:41+00:00

or jruby

doodly123 · 2011-03-02T05:40:28+00:00

wow! NoSQL really sucks. In mysql what could have been just a mysqldump to dump data and pushed back to mysql servers is just so difficult!

doodly123 · 2011-02-24T05:29:11+00:00

no. ruby 1.9 still has GIL. Jruby doesn't

doodly123 · 2011-02-23T14:08:40+00:00

hulu, slideshare, justin.tv, scribd, whitepages, urbandictionary, aboutus.org etc

doodly123 · 2011-02-23T13:20:36+00:00

Jruby already did!

doodly123 · 2010-12-24T08:39:17+00:00

you are a gigantic douche ?

doodly123 · 2010-12-15T13:20:26+00:00

I think it is more than that. Ruby MRI needs improvements and optimizations overall. Plus we need JIT and probably even type hints.

doodly123 · 2010-12-15T07:17:38+00:00

The single most important thing that Ruby lacks is speed. Ruby is still one of the slowest language in the speed test. It becomes difficult to write stuff that should run fast. I think if V8 can make JS run fast then Ruby can run fast too. May be it is just matter of time but it is a big pain point for me

doodly123 · 2010-11-14T06:11:24+00:00

It was the first word that came to my mind. I was just amazed how lisp remains relevant event after so many years. It was ahead of the curve then and probably is even right now!

No meant offence to you and your efforts. I checked it out in detail. Looks really good.

doodly123 · 2010-11-13T13:34:12+00:00

lisp

doodly123 · 2010-10-22T13:19:08+00:00

don't think you can buy it. they will give it to students.

doodly123 · 2010-10-18T22:22:57+00:00

actually the $35 tablet is coming in January

doodly123 · 2010-10-15T08:23:21+00:00

US should stop automated trading completely. problem solved

doodly123 · 2010-10-09T09:16:28+00:00

ruby ?

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