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I'm a bit skeptical on the fact that such companies do not disclose their custom infrastructure design. So their value is both in hardware optimizations as well as software ones ?

being a grad student myself, I'm wondering if we'll ever see any specific technical aspects on infrastructures that could drive systems research and provide real problems to be attacked...

are there any particular performance improvements over the previous versions ?

I was thinking basically of transaction management, especially the autocommit behavior.

I browsed through the docs and saw that the default python database API requires autocommit to be turned off... but then again django overrides this behavior.

any comments on this ? (or am I completely lost ?)...

great stuff!

thanks for sharing.

Actually I was wondering if there is any experience/benchmarks about Amazon high-performance instances.

anyone already used this ?

sysrq ftw. Really useful option. AFAIK alt-sysrq-e and -i are disabled by default in new kernels

go buy bitcoins ;-)

Well I guess that's expected behavior. So you may need to explicitly state that the feature works if you save an image on your clipboard -- not just pressing printscreen ;-)

nice work for a weekend app!

why would you say that ? is it a provocative question ?