Archive for July 2009

DNS performance redux

Posted on July 6, 2009, 11:58 am, by Philip Jacob, under DNS, performance.

It’s no secret that we have spent a lot of time on performance at StyleFeeder, mainly because it’s one of those things that you end up addressing when you’re scaling, but also because it can yield very tangible results for user metrics.  It turns out that people really like using fast websites.  Go figure. About […]

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StyleFeeder on the 4th

Posted on July 6, 2009, 10:42 am, by Philip Jacob, under Misc.

Last year, Kilby took some great shots of the Boston fireworks and MIT selected one of them for use on their homepage this weekend.  The photo was taken from StyleFeeder’s office in Central Square in Cambridge and shows the famous MIT dome underneath some fancy pyrotechnics.  You can see more from this year on his […]

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