I read the blog post by Bret Taylor about FriendFeed using a schema-less technique to store data into MySQL.  The article talks about how FriendFeed used established best practices for storing data in MySQL in a scalable manner.  The conventional wisdom says they were doing all the right things.  Yet they felt that they were [...]

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I attended Barcamp Miami on Feb 22.  It was excellent.  I gave a talk on Webhooks which was well received.  In the following days, I got to thinking about next steps.  Before I go into that, it makes sense to give a little background.
In a simplistic sense, Webhooks can be viewed as a design pattern [...]

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My company, Blazecore was researching live chat solutions for a client and I thought I would share what I found.  The requirement is to support 5 chat operators during normal business hours.  Site visitors would be able to click a link to get access to an operator if one was online.  Bear in mind that [...]

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