[brutimus]

The last thing I expect to see when I come to HN is a post about the site I work on every day (well... one of the sites). I would love to have some sort of semi-technical blog on our sites to showcase what actually happens behind the scenes more often.

From the thousands of lines of code per month to the multiple tiers of network redundancy to the hours upon hours we spend optimizing page performance for a better user experience, I would love to show some of it off to a technical audience.

[nopal]

I'd love to see such a blog.

With regard to Rob's post, I'd really like to see the templates that power the homepage and the CMS interface for laying things out. Do editors choose the layouts via the CMS, or do you have more technical producers or designers who do that? I'm guessing you're using Ellington, but I could be mistaken.

I'd be really curious to know how the Sun handles getting content into the site and getting it published in a good-looking way. I know that giving users (reporters) the ability to customize a page is both empowering and frightening, and coming up with a system that is as fluid as the one you guys are using is not an easy task.

[gr366]

I for one would love to hear it. Isn't there some place you could write it up and publish it?

[brutimus]

I think a couple of us have little blogs that we sometimes post snippets and short notes to, but nothing substantial. I haven't posted anything to my technical blog for over a year now.

Since they are personal blogs, we try to not get too specific about anything work-related. Hopefully we can get something official and work-blessed setup soon. I've got about 7 pages of 'XFS on a 20 disk raid array' benchmarking I'd love to publish.