Tag: loadsharers

At the end of my last post I said I was wandering off to think about scalable, low-overhead recommendation systems. It’s funny how preconceptions work. I know, I think better than most people, how often decentralizing systems to avoid single points of failure is good engineering. Yet I had to really struggle with myself to… Continue reading Sharing the load effectively

I just finished giving a talk – by remote video – at South East Linux Fest, about the Load-Bearing Internet Person problem. An LBIP is a person who maintains the software for a critical Internet service or library, and has to do it without organizational support or a budget backing him up. That second part… Continue reading Load-Bearing Internet People