June 2010 ~ vZhai: Info Sharing Blog

Exploring the Software and Techniques Behind Facebook

Exploring the Software and Techniques Behind Facebook: "At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users.Pingdom has published an article: Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site, which takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use...

Top 15 SEO Blogs To Follow If You Want To Brush Up Your SEO Knowledge

Top 15 SEO Blogs To Follow If You Want To Brush Up Your SEO Knowledge: "For all we know, Search Engine Optimization, better known as SEO, is used for obtaining the right keywords when we search for something on the internet. But only few of us know is that SEO is used in obtaining rankings for a site under relevant keyword phrases. SEO has several uses not only in business, but also in making research at school, or at work. Admit it, if this was not invented, you would really be having difficulties...

50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers

50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers: "Being a web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture, psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more time-consuming, requiring dozens of tools, attention span and an effective workflow for beautiful, timely and functional results.And this is where small time-savers become handy....