General Discussion
Hi High Scalability community! Do you have any information on the architecture behind Google Voice, the new service by Google that offers one Google Number for all your calls and SMS? It is based on GrandCentral who has been acquired by Google 2 years ago. Thanks!
web 2.0
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In his new book Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers , Steve Souders, web
Memcached
A software-based distributed caching system such as memcached is an important piece of today's largest Internet sites that support millions of concurrent users and deliver user-friendly response times. The distributed nature of memcached design transforms 1000s of servers into one large caching pool with gigabytes of memory per
Example
Making the world's knowledge computable Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute
Scalability
An interesting post on DataCenterKnowledge! * 1&1 Internet: 55,000 servers * Rackspace: 50,038 servers * The Planet: 48,500 servers * Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers * OVH: 40,000 servers * SBC Communications: 29,193 servers * Verizon: 25,788 servers * Time Warner Cable: 24,817 servers * SoftLayer: 21,000 servers * AT&
Memcached
The Presentations of the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 held April 20-23 in Santa Clara is available on the above link. They include: * Beginner's Guide to Website Performance with MySQL and memcached by Adam Donnison * Calpont: Open Source Columnar Storage Engine for Scalable MySQL DW by Jim Tommaney
API
Scalability Perspectives is a series of posts that highlights the ideas that will shape the next decade of IT architecture. Each post is dedicated to a thought leader of the information age and his vision of the future. Be warned though – the journey into the minds and perspectives of these
API
One of the key items Sun will be talking about in today's cloud computing announcement (at 9AM EST/6AM PST) will be Sun's opening of the APIs that we'll use for the Sun Cloud. We're making these available so that those who
web 2.0
I am excited about the upcoming release of two books on Web 2.0 and Cloud Application Architectures by O'Reilly. Web 2.0 Architectures (estimated release in May 2009) What entrepreneurs and information architects need to know Using several high-profile Web 2.0 companies as examples, authors Duane
General Discussion
A recent InfoWorld article claims that "With Cisco expected to enter the blade market and Sun expected to offer networking equipment, things could get interesting awfully fast." How does this effect your infrastructure strategy and decisions? Would you consider to build scalable web applications on the Cisco Unified
Scalability
Over the last several decades computer architects have been phenomenally successful turning the transistor bounty provided by Moore's Law into chips with ever increasing single-threaded performance. During many of these successful years, however, many researchers paid scant attention to multiprocessor work. Now as vendors turn to multicore chips,
Paper
Authors: Kevin Lim Parthasarathy Ranganathan Jichuan Chang Chandrakant Patel Trevor Mudge Steven Reinhardt This International Symposium on Computer Architecture paper seeks to understand and design next-generation servers for emerging "warehouse-computing" environments. We make two key contributions. First, we put together a detailed evaluation infrastructure including a new benchmark
MySQL
The 5th annual MySQL Conference & Expo, co-presented by Sun Microsystems, MySQL and O'Reilly Media. Happening April 20-23, 2009 in Santa Clara, CA, at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, brings over 2,000 open source and database enthusiasts together to harness the power
video
Ben Rockwood of Joyent speaks on "Storage in the Cloud" at the first OpenSolaris Storage Summit. Ben is the Director of Systems at Joyent. The Joyent Accelerators are based on OpenSolaris and ZFS. He has deep experience with OpenSolaris in the Real World.
Sun
Datacenterknowledge.com: In an effort to boost its refocused cloud computing initiative, Sun Microsystems (JAVA) has acquired Q-layer, a Belgian provider that automates the deployment of both public and private clouds. Sun says Q-layer’s technology will help users instantly provision servers, storage, bandwidth and applications. Do you have experience
Scalability
Scalability Perspectives is a series of posts that highlights the ideas that will shape the next decade of IT architecture. Each post is dedicated to a thought leader of the information age and his vision of the future. Be warned though – the journey into the minds and perspectives of these