I spent a lot of time this week reading about how different engineering teams have scaled their Hadoop infrastructure. I also spent time looking at consistent hashing strategies, how GitHub manages DNS and routing, and how individual personalities affect team culture and performance. Read on for all the details.

Hugh MacLeod’s latest book, Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination was recommended to me last week so I purchased the Kindle edition. It’s a short book (192 pages) I was able to knock out in four days. I do recommend the book but don’t expect to be given a step-by-step list of todos to create your own Evil Plan. More of my thoughts are after the break.