cloud computing
Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called “cloud computing,” so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website considering a move to the cloud. And it'
distributed systems
1. Enable the uTorrent web interface under Preferences, Web UI. Note that the URL for it is, by default, http://my-ip-address:my-port/gui/, and it requires a username and password to be set here. 2. Obtain a copy of the user-defined service utilities, srvany.exe and instsrv.exe. Copy them
distributed systems
The traditional method of distributing large files is to put them on a central server. Each client then downloads the file directly from the server. It’s a gratifyingly simple approach, but it doesn’t scale. For every download, the server consumes bandwidth equal to the size of the file.