convore.json/groups/sxsw/scalability-covering-your-rear-with-a-good-backend/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140911.326942, "message": "Hardware costs going way down. $100 gets you a 2TB drive.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351506}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140316.790427, "message": "Interesting that Aaron Emigh had experience at Six Apart before ShopKick", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351449}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140502.672596, "message": "ImageShack/yfrog had problems with MySQL", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351459}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140528.939497, "message": "They ended up moving to SSDs which helped a lot", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351463}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140419.389298, "message": "David Michaels making a good point. It's not just \"move it to the cloud\" but architect properly.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351453}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141284.4574981, "message": "@DctrWatson No, nobody brought that up, that's a good point though.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351557}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140770.0011361, "message": "\"You'd have to be crazy not to build it in the cloud\"", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351488}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140181.5155561, "message": "Really interesting to hear Jack Levin talk about the growth at Google", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351432}, {"user_id": 4, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300140380.0563159, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140374.685895, "message": "Mint had 30x more users join then expected on its first day", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351450}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140563.949502, "message": "They moved away from MySQL entirely, and went to HBase.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351467}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140673.75629, "message": "Mint says that the ACID compliance of MySQL actually is very important for them with financial data.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351476}, {"user_id": 1127, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140767.1151509, "message": "@ericflo they recording this?", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351487}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140776.5383649, "message": "@zeeg yea, I think so", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351490}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140890.9144101, "message": "Basically people saying product comes first, scalability comes later.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351503}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140230.7894189, "message": "Scalability for Mint was second only to security (makes sense)", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351438}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140576.5216579, "message": "He mentions the write-through cache as being extremely effective.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351468}, {"user_id": 232, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141326.9350569, "message": "@ericflo darn. Though I suppose with a good caching paradigm that really wouldn't be much of an issue", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351563}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142010.1970069, "message": "\"If you're in the prototype stage, don't waste your time building up your infrastructure, just use something like Heroku\"", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351662}, {"user_id": 3015, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140939.337512, "message": "didn't Mint just say scalability was second only to security? so product should be third right? :)", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351508}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142211.928591, "message": "Answer: ask questions that demonstrate deep understanding, not just \"how does this tool work?\"", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351694}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300140965.9121239, "message": "@EmilStenstrom haha, different people speaking :)", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351511}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141134.6886139, "message": "Hybrid hosting model can make sense. Bare metal for DB, virtualized/cloud for other stuff.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351532}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141408.9430649, "message": "Jack Levin from ImageShack/yfrog talking about monitoring and how important having a great dashboard is.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351577}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141431.5629251, "message": "Also the monitoring is smart enough to do things like cut power when components get too hot.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351582}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141627.287884, "message": "Don't let other people \"manage\" your code, it's a trap.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351616}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141053.3303211, "message": "\"Noisy Neighbor Problem\" - cloud providers do a bad job of divvying up disk IO", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351524}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141236.5503709, "message": "Can get big wins by doing processing intensive tasks asynchronously, so that the website still feels responsive.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351550}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142190.8323519, "message": "Question was: how do you actually recruit people for the startup?", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351692}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141033.726263, "message": "Virtualization can help with this, says Aaron Emigh of ShopKick", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351521}, {"user_id": 232, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141370.199893, "message": "@ericflo ah, that was going to be my next question :)", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351572}, {"user_id": 20535, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300141012.2693901, "user_id": 1}, {"date_created": 1300141322.5592041, "user_id": 4}, {"date_created": 1301238844.5226641, "user_id": 25769}], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141000.0187111, "message": "Product first, architectures evolve to meet the need", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351516}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141010.2100201, "message": "Talking about the difficulty of heterogeneous hardware. Need a good way of pushing traffic to different classes of servers.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351518}, {"user_id": 232, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141267.7004449, "message": "@ericflo was latency addressed between virtualized/cloud and bare metal?", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351555}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142940.7311151, "message": "Don't spend any more than a month on the design. Get it built, then later you can iterate and change it.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351777}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141954.276525, "message": "You need real world traffic to see where things will really fail.  Invite limits can be a good way to do that. Simulating traffic on a test cluster is a good approach too. Or mirroring traffic onto a secondary cluster.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351658}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142292.712534, "message": "Answer: \"I don't actually ask technical questions. I look for traits like diligence.\" If the guy says \"I don't know HBase but in a month I'll be an expert\" then he's more likely to hire that guy.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351707}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142972.9827321, "message": "Someone asked about the panel's thoughts on the whole \"DevOps\" movement", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351779}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143265.6388781, "message": "Answer: Know your own product, you need to be operationally savvy about your own domain.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351818}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141147.8980441, "message": "Apparently Mint and ShopKick are both doing this.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351535}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142886.7318101, "message": "Answer was to always launch with two of everything, because going from 2 to 4 to 10 is way easier than going from 1 to 2.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351774}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141351.5465119, "message": "@DctrWatson Also some hosting providers give you hybrid stuff, RackSpace for instance will put it in the same data center I think.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351569}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142034.6439719, "message": "\"I certainly wouldn't use Heroku for our systems but for prototyping and testing, sure\"", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351666}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143213.5054109, "message": "Question: You should hire ops guy at your series A. Is that a good hard-and-fast rule?", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351807}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143233.160939, "message": "Answer: Cloud is no substitute for operational savviness.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351811}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142221.4865949, "message": "Answer: Know exactly what it is you're looking for.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351696}, {"user_id": 1170, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142528.279938, "message": "Interesting comment by mint guy on java having performance issues, productivity issues, and security issues...", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351728}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143547.497756, "message": "FIN", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351846}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141869.2579041, "message": "Also it was said to get good systems people on your team, Google won because search returned in 1sec vs. Teoma's 20secs even though Teoma had \"better\" results.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351646}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300141986.4666719, "message": "Question was about Heroku, is it a crutch or useful service?", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351660}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142177.006655, "message": "Emphasis on using the same caliber of system to test load that you're using in production, otherwise the test isn't really valid.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351689}, {"user_id": 232, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142710.89254, "message": "@scottackerson anything data to back those up? =\\", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351752}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143091.727855, "message": "Answer: Developers should think about ops, Ops people should think about development technology.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351793}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143422.9607191, "message": "Answer (Jack Levin): HBase, nginx, memcached, HAProxy", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351839}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143440.3234479, "message": "Answer (David Michaels): An amazing software engineer :)", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351841}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300142858.8089089, "message": "I asked about conflicting desires to move fast & iterate quickly vs. building for scale.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351769}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143057.766325, "message": "Answer: it's terrible for a company to try to completely separate dev and ops, so DevOps is a good idea.", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351789}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143137.6330421, "message": "It's also important to keep your top talent interested, says David Michaels", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351800}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143340.3602641, "message": "Question: Thee favorite tools?", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351834}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300144424.3285191, "message": "Thanks @ericflo", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351907}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300143479.6694851, "message": "Answer (Aaron Emigh): nginx, memcached, Hadoop (HDFS, Scribe, ZooKeeper, Thrift, Hive)", "group_id": 4075, "id": 351844}, {"user_id": 13735, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300147913.973429, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300147789.4295189, "message": "@ericflo Thanks! Caught up with this topic about an hour after the live event and found a good snap shot of whats been said with an opportunity to discuss. A+ ;)", "group_id": 4075, "id": 352200}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300147624.0876429, "message": "@ahmad_alibrahim I don't think so, feel free to create one :)", "group_id": 4075, "id": 352182}, {"user_id": 14235, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300147181.3982649, "message": "@ericflo is there a group specialized in scalability here?", "group_id": 4075, "id": 352154}, {"user_id": 14235, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300150041.2922039, "user_id": 1}, {"date_created": 1300300459.377126, "user_id": 1661}], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300150015.819788, "message": "https://convore.com/scalability/", "group_id": 4075, "id": 352406}, {"user_id": 21647, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300154584.898422, "message": "?", "group_id": 4075, "id": 352830}, {"user_id": 15331, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13084, "date_created": 1300207809.5111051, "message": "Fail, I was at this session and didn't know you guys were here. It was a great panel", "group_id": 4075, "id": 358470}]