Inside LiveJournal’s Backend

By means of Michael Stepanoff blog, I found an excellent document – “Inside LiveJournal’s Backend” by Brad Fitzpatrick of Danga Interactive fame. The document is a set of slides from the presentation at Oscon 2004. It shows what it takes to make the site like LiveJournal.com from a technical point of view. There are some nice ways of handling high load described. Interesting to note that everything they’ve used is Open Source software – Apache web server, MySQL databases, Perl programming language (with some C), etc.

Infrared Dreams

Infrared DreamsYet another excellent photography site at InfraredDreams.com. As the domain suggests, images are done in the infrared light scope. Most of the infrared photographs that I have seen were dedicated to subjects like landscapes, forests, marines, etc. This site, on the other hand, presents people from the point of view of the infrared. Some pictures were done in the studio, others – outside. Great art!

WARNING: there are a lot of nude and erotic pictures, so if you are alergic to the display of human body, then you better skip the link.