http://simonwillison.net/2020-01-03T02:27:55+00:00Simon Willison2020-01-03T02:27:55+00:002020-01-03T02:27:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jan/3/how-digg-team-was-acquihired/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://lethain.com/digg-acquihire/">How the Digg team was acquihired.</a></strong></p> Useful insight into how a talent acquisition can play out from Will Larson, who was an engineering leader at Digg when they negotiated their acquihire exit. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1212911377808941061">Patrick McKenzie</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/startups">startups</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/will-larson">will-larson</a></p>

2018-07-02T17:27:29+00:002018-07-02T17:27:29+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jul/2/will-larson/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://lethain.com//digg-v4/"><p>Our provisioning tools for developer environments broke and no one knew how to fix them, so we reassigned new hires the zombie VMs of recently departed coworkers.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://lethain.com//digg-v4/">Will Larson</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/will-larson">will-larson</a></p>

2018-07-02T17:25:57+00:002018-07-02T17:25:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jul/2/diggs-v4-launch/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://lethain.com/digg-v4/">Digg&#x27;s v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity.</a></strong></p> Riveting behind-the-scenes story of the disastrous Digg V4 launch by former Digg engineer Will Larson. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/will-larson">will-larson</a></p>

2009-09-09T21:26:52+00:002009-09-09T21:26:52+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Sep/9/cassandra/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.digg.com/?p=966">Looking to the future with Cassandra</a></strong></p> Digg are now using Cassandra for their “green badge” (one of your friends have dugg this story) feature—the resulting denormalised dataset weighs in at 3 TB and 76 billion columns. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cassandra">cassandra</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/denormalisation">denormalisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nosql">nosql</a></p>

2009-04-16T00:50:29+00:002009-04-16T00:50:29+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/16/digg/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.digg.com/?p=664">(Yet) Another DiggBar Update</a></strong></p> Digg are responding in exactly the right way in my opinion—the DiggBar will start returning 301 redirects for anonymous users, while users who are logged in to Digg can opt-out of the feature if they want to (usage statistics show that most Digg users are fine with the feature). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/diggbar">diggbar</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/redirects">redirects</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urls">urls</a></p>

2009-04-10T22:17:57+00:002009-04-10T22:17:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/10/digg/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.digg.com/?p=653">Digg Search: Now With 99.987% Less Suck</a></strong></p> Really nice implementation of faceted search, still using Lucene and Solr under the hood. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/facets">facets</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/full-text-search">full-text-search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lucene">lucene</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/search">search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/solr">solr</a></p>

2009-04-03T20:42:55+00:002009-04-03T20:42:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/3/iddb/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.digg.com/?p=607">Introducing Digg&#x27;s IDDB Infrastructure</a></strong></p> IDDB is Digg’s new infrastructure component for sharding data across multiple databases, with support for both MySQL and memcachedb. “The DiggBar and URL minifying service is powered by a 16 machine IDDB cluster, which includes 8 write masters in the index and 8 MySQL storage nodes.” <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/databases">databases</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iddb">iddb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/joe-stump">joe-stump</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memcachedb">memcachedb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mysql">mysql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharding">sharding</a></p>

2009-01-13T16:41:57+00:002009-01-13T16:41:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/13/gearman/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.oddments.org/?p=30">New Gearman Server &amp; Library in C, MySQL UDFs</a></strong></p> Gearman, the job queue written for LiveJournal and now used by Digg and Yahoo!, has been rewritten in C. Looks like a good candidate for an easily configured lightweight message queue. Also includes hooks for writing MySQL functions that can interact with queues. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/c">c</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eric-day">eric-day</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gearman">gearman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/livejournal">livejournal</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/message-queues">message-queues</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mysql">mysql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/queues">queues</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a></p>

2008-06-29T14:12:56+00:002008-06-29T14:12:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/29/spikes/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/118-Dissecting-todays-Internet-traffic-spikes.html">Dissecting today&#x27;s Internet traffic spikes</a></strong></p> Theo Schlossnagle on how the increasing popularity of interest aggregation services such as Digg and Reddit result in traffic spikes that dwarf the old Slashdot effect, making a the old rules of thumb for capacity planning irrelevant. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/06/the-new-internet-traffic-spike.html">O&#x27;Reilly Radar</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/capacity-planning">capacity-planning</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/reddit">reddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/slashdotting">slashdotting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/theo-schlossnagle">theo-schlossnagle</a></p>

2007-12-23T09:43:00+00:002007-12-23T09:43:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/23/quantcast/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/top-sites-1">Quantcast top 100 US sites</a></strong></p> The vast majority of the top 100 attract a more female than male audience. Digg is one notable exception. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/12/youre-not-avera.html">Andrew Chen</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/advertising">advertising</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/demographics">demographics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quantcast">quantcast</a></p>

2007-12-15T12:29:07+00:002007-12-15T12:29:07+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/15/programming/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://programming.reddit.com/info/62zuw/comments">Techniques for safely consuming external HTTP on demand?</a></strong></p> I asked this question on programming.reddit.com yesterday and got some really insightful answers, including Joe Stump from Digg describing how Digg Images uses Danga’s Gearman worker queue. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/askreddit">askreddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/danga">danga</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gearman">gearman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/joe-stump">joe-stump</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/queue">queue</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/reddit">reddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/workers">workers</a></p>

2007-07-04T00:53:40+00:002007-07-04T00:53:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/4/slideshare/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/group/webapps-scalability/slideshows">SlideShare: Webapps scalability</a></strong></p> Lots of great presentations on scaling, from Twitter, Digg, Vox, LiveJournal, Last.fm and more. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/livejournal">livejournal</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sixapart">sixapart</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/slideshare">slideshare</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vox">vox</a></p>

2007-02-02T18:03:32+00:002007-02-02T18:03:32+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/2/digg/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.digg.com/?p=60">Digg to drop their global &quot;top users&quot; list</a></strong></p> It’s fascinating how big an effect a simple feature like a top users list can have on the social behaviour of a site. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social-software">social-software</a></p>

2007-01-07T22:34:53+00:002007-01-07T22:34:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/7/digg/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://tomayko.com/weblog/2006/12/30/digg-scares-me"><p>The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you're coming from digg.com and the proprieter of this system is frankly terrified by you people.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://tomayko.com/weblog/2006/12/30/digg-scares-me">Ryan Tomayko</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/funny">funny</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ryan-tomayko">ryan-tomayko</a></p>

2006-12-22T21:50:46+00:002006-12-22T21:50:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/22/digg/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://digg.com/programming/Screencast_How_to_use_OpenID">digg: Screencast: How to use OpenID</a></strong></p> No exclamation mark this time—let’s see if it makes a difference. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/screencast">screencast</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/selfpromotion">selfpromotion</a></p>

2006-12-19T12:36:39+00:002006-12-19T12:36:39+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/19/diggthis/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://digg.com/programming/HOW_TO_turn_your_blog_in_to_an_OpenID">digg: HOW TO turn your blog in to an OpenID</a></strong></p> Trying to get some digg love for my OpenID how-to. I even used a digg-friendly exclamation mark. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digg">digg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/selfpromotion">selfpromotion</a></p>