Archive for May, 2007

Hibernate Ehcache brainfart moment

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Had a brainfart moment the other day when working with cloudgrove.com and determining cache hit rates of objects. When you're using Hibernate, the secondary cache is only employed when fetching objects by primary key. Otherwise it has to go back to the database to make sure that the selection criteria ...

Flickr posts some numbers

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Over at flickr, they had a little downtime and decided to post some numbers about how impressive they are while they're down. 12,000 photos a second at peak times 2,070,075 photos in 24 hours! 8.5 million registered members 10 million unique tags Some pretty impressive numbers, but nothing too crazy compared to the several other ...