Your Server Doesn’t Scale

I wanted to get up on a soap box and talk about servers a bit. Getting disclosure out of the way as it pertains to what I’m going to talk about here:

I work for (mt) Media Temple.
The views expressed here are mine, not my employer’s.
I set up the servers for the …

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Nothing like a good dinner

I had dinner with my friend Summer tonight at Beechwood in Venice. I really don’t see Summer often enough. She’s awesome. Every time we hang out, I walk away feeling happier about things, in a general sense, than I did when I showed up.
Given the pace we in the …

Information En Route

I know I said I was going to write here at least weekly. For the record, I really am going to try to hold myself to that. The reason I haven’t been posting diligently this week is that I’m staying busy writing an article that will outline a straightforward …

Hello, Blog

At long, long last, I have redone my blog. I’m not entirely sure when I lost interest in my old blog, but it’s been at least a year. The thing is, I actually do like writing. I think a lot of my boredom with it was that I was using a home-rolled CMS type thing [...]

The Bug Count Also Rises

By John Browne
Reposted with permission

In the fall of that year the rains fell as usual and washed the leaves of the dust and dripped from the leaves onto the ground. The shuttles drove through the rainy streets and took the people to meetings, then later brought …

'Twas the night before launching...

Assuming things go well, we'll be pushing this site out live to the world soon. If you're reading this, it almost certainly means that we did. I hope it's working well for you.

I've been working pretty much full time on Virb for about the last six months. It's really …