Web system architecture progress

互联网系统架构的演进

Is It Down Right Now

Is It Down Right Now

Interesting website to check if your favorite web sites are down right now.

Programming languages used in most popular websites

Programming languages used in most popular websites

Front end all use JavaScript.

Back end, still these main stream languages: C/C++, Java, PHP, .NET. Also some Python, Perl, Ruby, Scala etc.

Tech Jobs Across America

Interesting article and statistics on tech job distribution across American.

Trends of technology

It would be of interests to watch the trend of technologies. Below are some websites:

http://trends.builtwith.com/ - show deployment technology of websites.
http://news.netcraft.com/ - show deployment technology of websites.
http://www.google.com/trends/ - show search trends
http://www.tiobe.com/ - for programming languages
http://langpop.com/ - for programming languages. (This site is for sale as of November, 2011)

The Interconnected World of Tech Companies

Very interesting. See how new companies emerge as the result of being established by employees from earlier companies: The Interconnected World of Tech Companies.

IT new trend

Seems it includes social/mobile/cloud computing, and mining on large data.

Quora - a question-answer addition/search web site (About).
浅析Quora的技术架构
Quora使用到的技术
What's interesting to me is long polling (comet) - a server push technology.

今年科技公司IPO表现点评.
Interesting ones to me include LinkedIn, Zillow, Zygna (简介), Facebook.

如何科学的建立自己的个人网站

The Myth of Architecture Corruption

Baidu Web App Contest