This is a tale of cron jobs, data mining and algorithms.
Our story begins with a data mining script I wrote to do research for my Master's Thesis (investigating social media buzz - still in early stages, will post more details as it progresses and/or drives me progressively more insane).
scalability
40 Times Less Server Load - How One Bad Line of Code Crashed My Server
Sat, 03/06/2010 - 14:07 — kohashi