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Re:System infrastructure tweaks Shopify made to handle the l... by nasalgoat on Thursday November 29, 2012 @11:29AM (#4848549)
Most of this is pretty standard scaling advice - except the "Tobi" caching, which has some good ideas I haven't seen elsewhere.
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Re:System infrastructure tweaks Shopify made to handle the l... by lnmx on Thursday November 29, 2012 @11:43AM (#4848623)
DHH describes a similar caching scheme here:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expi...

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