Jacob Kaplan-Moss

peafowl - Google Code

(memcache, memcached, messaging, python, queue, starling)

RubyForge: Starling: Project Info

Hells yeah! I heard about this a while back, and have been hoping it would get open-sourced. Fantastic.

(library, memcached, messaging, performance, queue, rails, twitter)

Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (PDF)

Loads of information about the tech behind Wikipedia. I've become convinced that the only sane way to design scalable systems is by studying the trials and tribulations of others.

(architecture, for:jdunck, hardware, infrastructure, lighttpd, memcached, mysql, performance, scaling, sysadmin, via:simonw, web, webdev, wikipedia)

Re: namespace bids

Interesting (and clever) way to fake namespaces in memcached.

(memcached)