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What is Danga?
Danga Interactive was Brad Fitzpatrick's company (1998 ~ 2007) that developed LiveJournal and by necessity the backend software to drive it all. Danga was sold to Six Apart, LiveJournal was re-sold to SUP, Six Apart was acquired by SAY Media. This domain now exists just for old Danga employees' personal use, and to not break links.
Software
Some of the software born at Danga:
| memcached | Distributed caching. Hit your database less. Speed up your website. |
| MogileFS | Distributed (meta) file system. Spray files across cheap disks on your network. Pay less for storage. No proprietary on-disk file formats. |
| Perlbal | HTTP reverse proxy load balancer and webserver, full of tricks, runtime configuration changes. |
| DJabberd | High-performance, low-overhead, everything-is-a-plugin extensible Jabber/XMPP server. |
| Gearman | Low-latency RPC load balancer and service router. |
| OpenID | Decentralized identity. |
Misc
- Presentations: old Danga infrastructure presentations
- Mailing Lists & archives
Where are they now?
The old crew:
- Brad Fitzpatrick, Google
- Brad Whitaker, SAY Media, Qwiki, Fastly
- Evan Martin, Google
- Alan Kasindorf ("Dormando")
- Lisa Philips, Twitter, Fastly
- Anatoly Vorobey, Google
- Sandy Fitzpatrick, back to her woodshop
- Mark Smith ("xb95"), Google, Mozilla, Dreamwidth, ...
- Abe Hassan, Six Apart, SAY Media, Google
- David Recordon, Versign, Facebook, Director of White House Information Technology for Obama
- Jesse Proulx, Six Apart, Dogster, Dreamwidth, ...
- Janine Costanzo, Six Apart, Mendel Biotech
- Gavin Mogan
- Mahlon Smith, Laika
- Ryan Fitzpatrick, United Online, T-Mobile
- Matthew Wilson, Google
- Mark Ferrell, LiveJournal
- Denise Paolucci, Dreamwidth
- Michael Granger, Laika
- Ben Bleything, LivingSocial
- Jonathan Steinert ("hachi") (Six Aparter, but Danga hacker :)), SAY Media
- ....