Warren Ellis ยป Want/Get/Do
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=9489
"Identify a character in your idea.
1) What does that character WANT?
2) What does that character need to do to GET what they want?
3) What are they prepared to DO to get what they want?"
Django snippets: minimal nginx conf to split get/post requests
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1141
"After a point the sql server becomes the bottleneck in lots of web application, and to scale, master-slave replication with single master, multiple slave is recommended. This setup with nginx can be used to accomplish traffic distribution between master and slave based on request method. "
Why PUT and DELETE?
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/why_put_and_delete.html
"In this interview, Elliotte Rusty Harold discusses the true meaning of PUT and DELETE."