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Reading About Twitter Scaling and Some Other Interesting Stuff

June 1st, 2008 ·

My Sunday morning newspaper is now just a combination of Google Reader, Google Alerts about topics I’m very interested in, and SummizeReader topics I’m moderately interested in.

I keep tabs on what my friends are up to in a special folder in Google Reader, mainly because different friends publish in different ways: Tumblr, Wordpress, Twitter, etc.  All of them have RSS feeds, though, so Google Reader is the best place for me to view my friends’ content all in one place.

Here’s some of my Sunday morning reading:

Twitter on it’s scaling problems

http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/its-not-rocket-science-but-its-our-work.html

Hadoop + Python

http://blog.last.fm/2008/05/29/python-hadoop-flying-circus-elephant

Python SSH Tools

http://commandline.org.uk/python/2008/may/29/sftp-python-really-simple-ssh/

On the obesity epidemic in America

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/05/exercise-didnt-keep-us-from-getting-fat.html

EC2 Boot Operations

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1085&ref=featured

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