Tabs.to presentation

Talk I gave at Hacker News (Aug 2011) about my startup. (Lost the original Css styles while converting)

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1. A multiple url shortener, with a tabs interface Federico Marani ­ federico@tabs.to ­ @flagZ ­ @tabsto Why? I would like to group and send urls in an intuitive way It is a simple idea that everybody understands A similar service does not exist
2. How is it done? Service Oriented Architecture Several components: REST api (json based protocol) Tabs displayer Web site Offline processing Mission­critical components REST API (Scala ­ Akka) Tabs Displayer (Scala ­ Scalatra) Why: Very fast and type­safe Let it crash philosophy (akka) Micro­framework Normal components Website (Python ­ Django) Offline processing (Python ­ RabbitMQ) Why: Rapid development Good framework Realtime offline processing Distribute load and bandwidth
3. Architecture Schema MongoDB Schema­less Fast { " _ i d " : O b j e c t I d ( " 1 2 3 4 5 " ) , " h a s h " : " 6 h r G L N " , " t a b s " : [ " h t t p : / / a . c o . u k / b " , " h t t p : / / b . c o m / c " ] , " t i t l e s " : [ " W e l c o m e t o s i t e A ! " , " T h e B s i t e " ] } What will come? name/tags for short url Registration system Open REST to the world Statistics Questions?