Mike Clarke is a software engineer at Disqus.

Mike has worked on scaling infrastructure to meet growing traffic demands, with projects including Postgres database work, configuration management, testing and deployment automation, capacity planning, and coding new features.

Recent thoughts

• 24 March 2013 - Sharding with the Django ORM
• 29 July 2012 - The problem with Pingdom

Projects

Personal

• python-phabricator Python API bindings for Phabricator
• netcat.io (offline) Realtime availability and performance monitoring

Disqus

• sharding-example Demo of sharding tools at Disqus
• dns Migrated BIND to nsd authoritative servers and unbound recursive and caching servers
• fabric Replaced legacy .deb-based deployment with fabric
• postgres Administrated dozens of large, high-transaction postgres nodes
• puppet Brought puppet-based configuration management to Disqus