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top-like tool for memcache clusters. - Clay McClure

Well-written, inspirational piece on getting more done, and making a life of meaning. - Clay McClure

Counterpoint to the free (as in beer) trend in web apps. - Clay McClure

Idea: $20 Execution: priceless - Clay McClure

Read these. - Clay McClure

Slides describing the Netflix company culture. - Clay McClure

Sample Django implementation of Sign-In with Twitter - Clay McClure

Useful information on structuring and running a start-up. - Clay McClure

Nice background on the various phases of a start-up, how much equity to give out, and how to structure the company. - Clay McClure

Nice list of commonly needed git commands. - Clay McClure

Nice introduction to branching - Clay McClure

Great introduction to git - Clay McClure

Really nice description of CSS floats. - Clay McClure

Interesting insight to GitHub's deployment process. It's always nice to see how other shops handle these problems. - Clay McClure

Could be fun, but the syntax looks cumbersome - Clay McClure

Excellent introduction to version control with Git - Clay McClure

Well-written and nicely illustrated discussion of various techniques used to scale MySQL at one of the largest sites in Europe. - Clay McClure

Example of a granular REST API exposing individual domain object fields - Clay McClure

Nice cost and feature comparison of various IaaS providers. - Clay McClure

Python's equivalent of Ruby's Rake? - Clay McClure

Another interesting take on gems. - Clay McClure

Interesting take on the deficiencies of ruby gems. - Clay McClure

Useful for writing a set of json tools that resemble the conventional unix tools (grep, sort, etc). - Clay McClure

The first of a series of detailed posts describing how the author ported a a Rails app to CouchDB. Some good tips on productivity and behavior-driven development (BDD). - Clay McClure

Possibly a base for a command-and-control layer built on SSH. - Clay McClure

Possibly a base for a command-and-control layer built on SSH. - Clay McClure

Best practices for designing and building operations-friendly software. Mostly common sense, and some questionable and dated advice, but some good nuggets: "What isn't tested in production won't work". "If development is frequently called in the middle of the night, automation is the likely outcome. If operations is frequently called, the usual reaction is to grow the operations team." "Know when fault tolerance is hiding little failures so they can be tracked down before they become big failures." "Make all reported errors actionable." - Clay McClure

Three approaches to modeling one-to-many relationships in CouchDB. For those familiar with a more traditional "a place for everything and every thing in its place" approach to data modeling, the ideas presented here will seem messy. - Clay McClure