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How Digg Works

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

People are excited about the web for different reasons.  Some people are excited by the social interaction, some simply for e-commerce, others are drawn in by exciting design, and then there are those of us who are in to the technology which brings it all together.  I admit it, I am a geek, and I am very interested in the latter.  Well, lucky for me that digg.com has started a technology category on their blog where Joe Stump and other’s give you a behind the scenes look at the technology behind digg.com.

This is not just your run of the mill LAMP installation. A distributed computing dream, I would love to have this type of hardware to play with. Or better yet, google’s hardware to play with.