How Facebook configures its millions of servers every day

When you’re a company the size of Facebook  with more than two billion users on millions of servers, running thousands of configuration changes every day involving trillions of configuration checks, as you can imagine, configuration is kind of a big deal. As with most...

Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash (2010)

Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash. That’s one hell of an exit for the startup, which was founded in 2007 and has raised only $13 million in...