Al Hoang

January 21, 2008

Notes on growing an email system from 2 users to 2 million

Filed under: tech — hoanga @ 2:27 pm

Kristian Köhntopp shares his views on growing an email system from a small number of users to millions of users and the changes in the system architecture as it continues to evolve to match user growth. Some of the more interesting notes are not at the ‘what type of machines will solve 2 million users’ but some of the organizational changes that have to be made in order to accommodate such growth.

Read it yourself

KDE4 pretty but a bit rough on usability

Filed under: gripe, linux — hoanga @ 8:54 am

I’ve been playing with KDE4 on my desktop at home. One of the things I have always liked about KDE is the myriad of options you can drown in while trying to configure something.

However, it seems that KDE4 at present is still not up to that task… ah well.

Live and learn, I guess.

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