On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Manvendra Bhangui <[email protected]> wrote:
> The spamassasin example was at Sify. At that point we were hit by spam and
> virus
> specifically targeted at Sify. And the servers were just not able to cope up
> with the load. One night of frantic coding and the spamassasin was replaced
> by bogofilter. A program called qmail-smtpd was modified to look at the exit
> code of bogofilter and discard the mail at the entry points.
> bogofilter is a very fast bayesian spam filter available at
> http://www.bogofilter.org
>
> Currently we are doing some of this stuff at my current job. Just few days
> back we have got a huge performance gain by moving to sphinx -
> http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ (written in C++) and we are
> again going to save on servers by moving away from Lucene -
> http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/ (written in Java)
>
>
> Take a look at
>
> http://highscalability.com/
>
> It explains the architecture of high scalable sites like youtube, flickr,
> etc. I have personally gained a lot from the above site.
>
Thanks, will go through these tomorrow morning.

Roshan Mathews
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