I've been a bit remiss in posting as of late primarily because life has kept me very busy. On April 2nd, I started my new job as CTO of MyYearbook.com, a social networking startup that just celebrated its second year birthday. In line with taking the position, I have moved to Bucks County, PA and am working in New Hope.
It's a pretty neat place with lots of fun technical challenges, mainly keeping a site that's growing like crazy up and running. We're trying to squeeze everything we can out of our production environment while testing our new environment which is designed to be more scalable.
Within my first month here, we've managed to implement memcache pretty heavily reducing some of the larger quantity of queries, implemented Slony based replication on the PostgreSQL to use the slaves as the primary read database for our more time intensive queries and have gotten to play with some high end equipment including SAN's and a SSD.
The SAN, SSD and operating system under PostgreSQL issue is an interesting one and we're not through the woods yet. Once I have more concrete information I will post an entry dedicated to that subject alone.
