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@peteforde 3 different usecases: memcached = cache, redis = snapshot persistence ( can loose data ), cassandra = redundant persistence.7:14 AM Jul 2nd from Tweetie in reply to peteforde
@jonfingas haha9:12 AM Jul 1st from web in reply to jonfingas
incredible that FF3.5 released with <video> tag that doesn't support h264. Should have waited. Future: Site requires HTML5* (*FF 4.0+ only)9:12 AM Jul 1st from web
Epic writing: http://imgur.com/5dkGc.gif8:59 AM Jul 1st from web
:-( http://twitpic.com/8y4sz8:05 AM Jul 1st from Tweetie
@soleone happy canada day!7:52 AM Jul 1st from Tweetie in reply to soleone
It seems that Ottawa banned buskers from the downtown core for today's Canada Day. That's such a fail #ottawa7:51 AM Jul 1st from Tweetie
I realized we are over 20 people now at Shopify. That's crazy.1:48 PM Jun 30th from Tweetie
Holy shit! RPM is now available for Java as well. Finally Java can scale too. http://java.newrelic.com/11:47 AM Jun 30th from Tweetie
Twitter wins at real time: http://skitch.com/tobiaslue...12:16 PM Jun 29th from Tweetie
via @bitsweat: builder bottlenecks on string escaping Fix: gem install fast_xs (factor 10 improvement for Shopify)10:59 AM Jun 29th from Tweetie
@bitsweat ok fast_xs totally sped up the whole thing by a factor of 1010:59 AM Jun 29th from Tweetie in reply to bitsweat
@bitsweat KCacheGrind suggests that the main bottleneck is actually indentation. At least in synthetic tests, in production it may be xs!10:35 AM Jun 29th from Tweetie in reply to bitsweat
Hmm maybe XMLTidy could run as a nginx module automatically on application/xml content-type responses which would simplify the ruby code..9:58 AM Jun 29th from Tweetie
Builder is turning out to be Shopify API's major bottleneck. Wonder if replacing it with a ducktyped stringconcat class + xmltidy would work9:57 AM Jun 29th from Tweetie
Easy way of installing java unattended with chef: ( needed for solr, don't panic ): http://gist.github.com/1376287:22 AM Jun 29th from Tweetie
@GrasshopperCare we signed up for GotVMail. Admin interface is horrid. Will there be a better one in the future?11:31 AM Jun 28th from web in reply to GrasshopperCare
@davidwurtz we use grasshopper.com but are really unhappy with it. Ringcentral looks interesting7:24 AM Jun 28th from web in reply to davidwurtz
@nzkoz ????!!!!5:28 PM Jun 25th from web in reply to nzkoz
@tferriss that's pretty constructuive!5:23 PM Jun 25th from web in reply to tferriss

Name Tobias Lütke
Location Canada
Web http://blog.leets...
Bio Rails Core alumni; Shopify founder, CEO

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