visiting a friend at a facebook office a few years ago, we walked by a small room near the bar cordoned off with caution tape. "oh, they're replacing the TV again, people keep using the oculus and smashing it by accident, has happened a few times" -- i can't help but picture that small, broken room today. #meta
as someone who switched to an iphone yesterday after having using google flagship models since the nexus one, i agree that this is an important direction for google's product strategy, but i think they're playing catch up from far behind.
i remarked to my wife last night that the biggest difference in the ux between the two was that my android was always a phone, and this iphone has become a platform/ux that's larger than a single device, a whole set of humanistic little devices -- airpods and the home ipad in my case. i'd always thought i couldn't switch because i use google services, but those are largely commodities now -- i've got a wide range of good enough options for photos/music/email/cal/etc. -- the google android apps are a little better, but not enough so to make a difference. even siri has been good enough so far, though my queries aren't especially complicated.
Just a heads up on the site itself -- the height/width/clipping of your .header-background is glitching in Chrome for me so everything in the content body is blurry. Looks nice when i disable that element!
Basically just a proof of concept at this point, but I've been hacking on something that would help mitigate these concerns for people who like App Engine's Golang abstractions, but not the lock-in. Contribs / thoughts welcome!
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We're systematically collecting data on this exact conundrum - how much is a treatment that was, until recently, infinitely expensive worth? there's a whole lot of room for smart people to make a difference.
...looks like you've (again, assuming webvet.com) also got an openx server. that'll benefit a lot from the master/slave replica. i'd also look at making spc.js non-blocking as that may be why the pages are blank for a few seconds even after content has been delivered...
Inline with questions 2 & 3 - what's the bottleneck? reading or writing or both? if you haven't already, it's worth looking into a master (writes) / slave (reads) setup - provides a bit of redundancy and lets you scale reads very easily by adding more slaves. It also helps with writes because it can take a lot of pressure off the master.
...assuming you're webvet.com it looks like you're scaling drupal, so these would be my first questions: are you using the views module? if so, kill that, as well as anything else by merlin (panels, etc). and look at your indexes. setup pressflow + percona. master & slave db. reverse proxy caching (varnish or nginx) are all good places to start. hostwise if you're not already on amazon, you can get a lot of mileage out of a service like voxel that lets you mix VPSs (cheap webheads) with physical hardware. it's not great and it may well be worth biting the more expensive bullet and going to AWS for long term needs, but it's a lot better than linode for an underwater db.
my email is in my profile if you'd like more detail - drupal is a bear at first but it can be scaled for a while.
Tribeca, New York City - Frontend/PHP Developer for The Daily Voice
We're looking for someone that's passionate about HTML/CSS/JS to join our technology team and help us publish local news for our growing audience.
Important:
HTML / CSS - semantic, crossbrowser and crossdevice markup
JS - jQuery
PHP - 5.3+
SQL
Git or other source control
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Drupal (API and/or module development experience, for 6 or 7)
SASS or LESS experience
JS Lint
Objective C
Unit Testing
Profiling code
A/B or Multivariate Testing
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Our Creative Tech team is looking for smart hackers to evolve our product. We're building a national community news network, so we've got a wide range of work to be done and problems to solve. We think they're interesting problems. Mostly in PHP.