Axon Flux
axonflux.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Axon Flux is a blog by a Posterous engineer on scaling Rails, startup engineering, NoSQL and web infrastructure.
What HN saysHN links its post on building and scaling a startup on Rails as a useful scaling resource, plus its Facebook analytics and PHP quotes posts.
18HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)4 people · 251 points · first shared 2009 · 55 comments on HN
- 25 quotes by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf4 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3How Facebook uses Scribe, Hadoop, and Hive for Analytics, Spam detection...2 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 4KodakGallery.com is holding your photos hostage. Bust them free using this.1 people · 22 points · first shared 2009 · 6 comments on HN
- 5How NoSQL is used at Twitter1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 6Google's 174 web fonts in one convenient downloadable tarball1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 7AxonFlux, a new posterous on Rails, scaling, and software eng. Upgrading to Rails 2.2.21 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 8MongoDB wasn't created in a lab1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 9LazyGenerate: How to lazily generate properties in ActiveRecord1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 10Git + github = Open source game changer1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 11Handy rgb to hsl and rgb to hsv color model c1 people · first shared 2013
What HN people wrote when they linked it
monk_e_boy · 2015-12-02
This is ongoing in the PHP community. For those who like purity there are tons and tons of wrapper classes that hide all that stuff away.
Modern IDEs autocomplete all the functions, I'm using PHPStorm and as soon as I type 'arr' it shows me a list of all the array functions with parameters listed.
Not perfect, but if I was worried about that kind of thing I'd use Python (which I love) or RoR (which I also love).
The ethos of PHP is to just get stuff done: http://axonflux.com/5-quotes-by-the-creator-of-php-rasmus-lerdorf
donw · 2011-11-16
I've downvoted you for providing a worthless answer.
The poster asked for similar resources on scaling Rails up; maybe something like https://github.com/blog/117-scaling-lesson-23742 or http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup would have been useful.
I sincerely doubt that the top-poster has Twitter-level problems or resources. He may have a Rails site that's crapping out under load, and needs resources for optimizing both application performance and database access.
"Just move everything to Java" is a meaningless answer. It doesn't help him at all, not unless he's got a year and change to retrain/rehire his engineers and completely rebuild his application.
gst · 2013-12-17
I like his quotes:
> I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I'll just restart apache every 10 requests.
> I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers. We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all.
(from http://axonflux.com/5-quotes-by-the-creator-of-php-rasmus-lerdorf)
rachelbythebay · 2013-02-19
The work to derive the palette? Do you mean RGB to HSL and back? That isn't particularly CPU-intensive.
One of many implementations: http://axonflux.com/handy-rgb-to-hsl-and-rgb-to-hsv-color-model-c
I imagine you could precompute the entire 24 bit range if you really wanted.
I mean, this thing has a failure mode where it says it can't find your IP address. That makes no sense until you look at how it was implemented.
grimen · 2011-06-19
Reason: Most .NET/PHP-programmers just don't care about readable code nor security per definition; it's strongly bound to the reason they picked this language from the start.
...or to quote the creator of PHP: http://axonflux.com/5-quotes-by-the-creator-of-php-rasmus-lerdorf
vincentchan · 2010-05-11
Check out this post from one of the founders at Posterous:
http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup