Sun Jun 10 22:54:15 HKT 2012 From /weblog/design/examples

llvm

The design of LLVM - http://www.drdobbs.com[..]9_h&elq=d513b4b897824dcc8fef763eaf9bc12a

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Thu Mar 01 22:35:45 HKT 2012 From /weblog/design/examples

mailinator compresses

How Mailinator compresses email by 90%, how to analysis the bottleneck and how to find the solution to get good compression ration and also fast to compress - http://mailinator.blogspot.com[..]w-mailinator-compresses-email-by-90.html

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Tue Mar 18 01:25:25 HKT 2008 From /weblog/design/examples

suggestion of search engine improvement

Nice suggestions, I think this can apply to most search function

Don’t tell me everything you know - limit to specific set of datas , like ameture / professional
Ask me the next most reasonable question
Offer me to establish my search identity

http://jooto.com[..]008/01/05/how-to-improve-search-engines/

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Wed Nov 21 14:40:38 HKT 2007 From /weblog/design/examples

ebay

Key points

1) No stored procedures are used. There are some very simple triggers.
2) Move cpu-intensive work moved out of the database layer to applications applications layer: referential integrity, joins, sorting done in the application layer! Reasoning: app servers are cheap, databases are the bottleneck.
3) No client-side transactions. no distributed transactions
4) J2EE: use servlets, JDBC, connection pools (with rewrite). Not much else.
5) No state information in application tier. Transient state maintained in cookie or scratch database.

http://highscalability.com/ebay-architecture

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Sun Jan 15 01:11:21 HKT 2006 From /weblog/design/examples

global search sample

An nice article provide a complicate solution of global search - "Domain Searching Using Visitors". I think you can guess from the name, it is a solution which is look nice and damn flexible. However, this also very complicate and not everyone like to do that much upfront design first. Anyway, a nice reading

http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/5927

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