Velocity 09: Richard Crowley, "Building OpenDNS Stats"
The old OpenDNS Stats system was built when we were doing 1 billion queries a day and had far outlived its usefulness. Playing hot potato with load on overworked servers all struggling to keep up gets old after a while, doesn’t it? This gave me the opportunity to start from a blank slate and build the system we need to serve us at 8 billion queries a day and scale to 16 or 24 billion. We ...