Flickr architecture workshop by Cal Henderson

Cal Henderson, senior developer of Flickr, is putting on a building enterprise web applications workshop for 40 people in San Francisco on Monday, June 20. The day-long session costs $495.

I just signed up and so did Matt.

Covered topics

  • Flickr overview

  • Development environments

  • Unicode

  • Data integrity

  • Dealing with e-mail

  • Talking to other services

  • Blogging

  • Bottlenecks

  • Scaling 101

  • Scaling PHP

  • Scaling MySQL

  • Scaling storage

  • Monitoring

  • Feeds

  • Flickr API