Cal Henderson (Flickr) on Scalable Web Architectures - Common Patterns and Approaches - SAM SIG

This was great! Nice talk, lots of super geeky stuff about memcached and kinky master/slave relationships between databases.

Two thumbs up...

Cal's 108-slide deck is online at:
www.iamcal.com/talks
(Look for the 8/23 SDForum presentation near the top, and click the PowerPoint link.)

Cal is engineering manager for Flickr, and author of this year's
Building Scalable Websites. There's a link to his book, on Amazon, from Cal's website at:
www.iamcal.com/