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The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources) - http://bit.ly/b65Cr4 #archive

• Jeremy Zawodny, while performing data alchemy in the dungeons of Craigslist, stored 1,250,000,000 Key/Value Pairs in Redis on a 32GB Machine.
• Data sorting world record: 1 terabyte, 1 minute. The system has 52 computer nodes, each node is a commodity server with two quad-core processors, 24 gigabytes (GB) memory and sixteen 500 GB disks. It's not just hardware though, they also built a software that utilized all their CPU and RAM.
• Tweets of Gold:
  • wm: I am really getting the sense that none of you yokels waxing profound about scalability actually has anything factual to say
  • joestump: I think you can do things to *mitigate* pain points up front. You don't need to over-engineer, but it's not hard to look forward.
  • danielcrenna: I love it when I check in debug code accidentally and it turns into a three day hunt for a major scalability problem
  • joestump: Your post also makes me think of another phrase I say often: Scaling == Specialization. Bigger scale = More specialization.

Why 37signals’ advice is irrelevant - http://bit.ly/9zK5MG - Not sure I agree with this one. Do you? #sm37

For our German followers: @smashingmag sucht Web-Entwickler vor Ort in Freiburg (Vollzeit / Teilzeit). Details: http://bit.ly/doBXwa

Google Develops a Facebook Rival - http://bit.ly/bHRund

Today is @SmashingInsider's last day of internship in our office in Freiburg, Germany. Her review of the internship will be published on SM.

The Magic Behind Amazon's 2.7 Billion Dollar Question - http://bit.ly/AxGI5 - Nice read.

Why Your Customers Don't Want to Talk to You - http://bit.ly/beU7Bb - Very interesting read.

Designer Sheep And Invisible Platypus - http://bit.ly/cvm2Wx

50 Tileable and Seamless Pattern Sets (500 Patterns) - http://bit.ly/bPzqio

4 Ways to Auto-Refresh your Browser when Designing new Sites - http://bit.ly/9GL0pB (via @buysellads)

PageToFame: allows you to rate first pages of books, compare ratings and follow your favourites - http://bit.ly/lmqJN

CSS3 Browser Tilt-Shift: an experiment trying to create a Tilt-Shift effect on Text using only CSS3 - http://bit.ly/9Bs3nr.

New on SmashingMag: In Defense Of Photoshop - http://bit.ly/cKmD5Y (now with a Facebook Like-button)

The Web’s Undead - http://bit.ly/cZQQQ2 - Very nice short article.

40 Free Professional and Detailed Web Layout PSD Templates - http://bit.ly/bIoKWG

Recurring Billing For Web Apps - http://bit.ly/anOcua - A closer look at recurring billing systems.

@adam_d sometimes it's just plain hard to do it, but if you do, it's really productive.

Getting Motivated with Your To-Do List - http://bit.ly/9O7CRJ

New on SmashingMag: In Defense Of Photoshop - http://bit.ly/cKmD5Y (now with a Facebook "Like"-button)