downsides of the Akamai IP Application Accelerator : certainly not all roses. (via Tony Finch)
(tags: via:fanf akamai networking tcp-ip private-networks routing)Facebook lose a RAID group : on one of their legacy NetApps? hmm
(tags: netapp facebook raid raid5 backup storage data-loss hard-disks)Facebook’s Haystack photo storage backend : ditching NetApp and Akamai, rolling their own massive-blob storage cloud
(tags: storage scaling facebook web http scalability photos infrastructure distributed haystack cdn cloud netapp)The Game Industry – Push cx : ‘Looking in, it’s clear that the [computer] game industry is broken and not getting fixed anytime soon. I will not be joining the game industry. I’m interested in building a profitable business making fun games in a good working environment, and that’s simply not what it does.’ +1; a lot of people, including myself, have also come to that conclusion, over the years
(tags: games coding work business management game-industry ea igda quality-of-life crunch-mode mismanagement scheduling)