Bill Dudney on what happens when an iPhone application starts up
When Google released their v8 Javascript Engine earlier this year, I always wanted to build an Apache Module for it. This afternoon I had some time, and so I created mod_v8.
Spock Proxy supports range-based horizontal paritioning of a large MySQL database. The proxy intercepts SQL queries from the client, sends queries to the correct databases based on how the database is partitioned, then aggregates the results from each database and returns them to the client as a regular MySQL result set.
PostGIS is awesome like this.
write-through cache for ActiveRecord
VeryBigFS is a trivial MacFUSE file system—about 60 lines of C code—that creates a huge volume with a huge file in it. “Huge” would be 512TB in this case.