Jasjeet Thind

Read a book recently titled “How to Measure Anything” by Douglas W. Hubbard. Here are some notes from the book: Introduction Think of a measurement as “error reduction” Definition of Measurement – A set of observations that reduce uncertainty where the result is expressed as a quantity. Thus – a measurement doesn’t have to eliminate [...]

All sorts of gizmos and gadgets can help you be more productive at work, and theories abound on how you should structure your days to get more done. But a new study finds that becoming more focused, productive and less stressed at work may involve nothing more than learning to meditate. http://www.usatoday.com/money/jobcenter/workplace/bruzzese/story/2012-07-08/meditation-helps-your-work/56071024/1?dlvrit=206567

Yahoo! Mixer is a fully asynchronous service that requires significantly fewer threads than thread-per-connection or thread-per-request architectures like Standard Apache Tomcat applications which don’t scale well with large number of connections/requests. Because of this, the Yahoo! Mixer can efficiently handle a large number of outstanding requests to slower services like Facebook with just a small [...]

Memcached, a distributed cache for data / object storage in memory, is very important for scaling and improving response time performance. This is especially important for Social websites, which heavily depend on slow outbound data services (e.g. Facebook, database, Identity services, etc.). To mitigate overhead of heap memory allocation / deallocation, memcached organizes itself into [...]

Nice article on database shard partitioning: http://www.codefutures.com/database-sharding/