tomlemon

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by tomlemon 14y ago
More like "don't say Rap Genius told you about a problem Yesterday when they actually told you about it last week and you refused to respond until they took the issue public"
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by tomlemon 14y ago
It's definitely confusing – we've got a long way to go before Rap Genius is the perfect platform non-musical textual analysis! (But I still think this is a good way to present our reply since I want to comment on 2 of Heroku's specific clai
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by tomlemon 14y ago
I appreciate Heroku's apology, but it: 1) Understates the problem – It affects not only Bamboo, but all thin (and other non-concurrent web servers) on Cedar. And since thin is the default on Cedar, the problem affects all apps on Cedar by d
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by tomlemon 14y ago
> It seems off to blame this exclusively for their performance problems There are definitely ways to improve the performance, but you can't measure them since Heroku gives you no way of determining how much time requests spend in the in
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Rap Genius responds to Heroku's apology(rapgenius.com)
53 points by tomlemon 14y ago|47 comments
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by tomlemon 14y ago
Rap Genius cofounder: Our response: http://rapgenius.com/Oren-teich-bamboo-routing-performance-l...
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by tomlemon 14y ago
Rap Genius cofounder: > The simulation was a bit of a stretch because the supposed number of servers you need to achieve "equivalent" performance is highly dependent on how slow your worst case performance is, and if your worst case isn
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by tomlemon 14y ago
Rap Genius cofounder: Random routing is still wayyyyy worse than intelligent routing even if you're processing multiple requests simultaneously on a single dyno (see http://rapgenius.com/1504222 ) Requests will still queue, but since time
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Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails(rapgenius.com)
1763 points by tomlemon 14y ago|423 comments
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Rap Genius (YC S11) Seeks Brilliant Engineers to Build Internet Talmud
1 points by tomlemon 14y ago
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Rap Genius (YC S11) Seeks Mobile Czar
1 points by tomlemon 14y ago
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by tomlemon 14y ago
Read the official announcement on Rap Genius: http://rapgenius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-horowitz...
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Andreessen Horowitz invests $15 million in Rap Genius(rapgenius.com)
62 points by tomlemon 14y ago|6 comments
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by tomlemon 14y ago
This might be overkill as it expires all your fragment caches as well
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Fast-growing YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) looking for 1st employee
1 points by tomlemon 15y ago
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Fastest-growing YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) looking for 1st employee
1 points by tomlemon 15y ago
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Wall-O-Tweets: See your Twitter favorites in wall form(rapgenius.com)
18 points by tomlemon 15y ago|1 comments