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I appreciate a note James Hamilton recently posted entitled Flickr DB Architecture, in which he briefly (and succinctly) describes how Flickr scales their database back-end to support what I refer to as an Internet-scale website. He then goes on to provide a list of links to other notes and articles that describe how other well-known [...]

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Via David Strom’s blog, I found this photo essay of labs at night. One of my favorite moments is walking into a dark lab, or closing up at the end of a long night… When I switch off the room’s lights and turn-around to close and lock the door, the shining LEDs of every color, [...]

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Today I’m in Chattanooga, TN, at the Society for Conservation Biology annual meeting, where my wife Emily Coffey is giving a talk on her research in establishing ecological baselines using paleoecological analysis.
Excitingly, Nature News just published a brief article on her work! I want to point out, when the article says “Coffey and her collaborators [...]

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Todd Underwood posted a blog entry on the Renesys Blog entitled Cogent Becomes Transit-Free. It’s an enjoyable read for those of us sick enough to be fascinated by BGP and peering. In it Todd elaborates on Cogent’s acquisition of PSINet, their use of transit providers, and numerous peering disputes for which they’re infamous. Fun for [...]

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