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Todd Hoff

Jun 29, 2009

Hey we're moving up in the world, jumping from 19th place to 3rd place. In case you aren't sure what I'm talking about, Jurgen Appelo goes through this massive effort of ranking blogs according to Google PageRank, Technorati Authority, Alexa Rank, Google links, and Twitter Grader Rank.

Through some obviously mistaken calculations HighScalability comes out #3. Given all the superb competition I'm not exactly sure how that can be. Well, thanks for all the excellent people who contribute and all the even more excellent people that read. Now at least I have something worthy to put on my tombstone :-)

Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons

This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author. In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji’s allow fans at home to rapidly express themselves,

Brief History of Scaling Uber

This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author. On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when

Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale

This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn. AWS S3 is a service every engineer is familiar with. It’s the service that popularized the notion of cold-storage to the

The Swedbank Outage shows that Change Controls don't work

This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly a million

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Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons

Brief History of Scaling Uber

Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale

The Swedbank Outage shows that Change Controls don't work