Sponsored Post: Uber, ScaleOut Software, Couchbase, Tokutek, Logentries, Booking, Apple, MongoDB, BlueStripe, AiScaler, Aerospike, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

Who's Hiring?

• Apple is hiring for multiple positions. Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly.
  • C++ Senior Developer and Architect- Maps. The Maps Team is looking for a senior developer and architect to support and grow some of the core backend services that support Apple Map's Front End Services. Please apply here.  
  • Senior Engineer. We are looking for a team player with focus on designing and developing WWDR’s web-based applications. The successful candidate must have the ability to take minimal business requirements and work pro-actively with cross functional teams to obtain clear objectives that drive projects forward to completion. Please apply here.
  • Software Engineer. We are looking for a team player with focus on designing and developing WWDR’s web-based applications. The successful candidate must have the ability to take minimal business requirements and work pro-actively with cross functional teams to obtain clear objectives that drive projects forward to completion. Please apply here.
  • Quality Assurance Engineer. The iOS Systems team is looking for a Quality Assurance engineer. In this role you will be expected to work hand-in-hand with the software engineering team to find and diagnose software defects. Please apply here.


• Join the team that scales Uber supply globally! Our supply engineering team is responsible for prototyping, building, and maintaining the partner-facing platform. We're looking for experienced back-end developers who care about developing highly scalable services. Apply at https://www.uber.com/jobs/4810.


• We need awesome people @ Booking.com - We want YOU! Come design next
  generation interfaces, solve critical scalability problems, and hack on one of the largest Perl codebases. Apply: http://www.booking.com/jobs.en-us.html


• UI Engineer– AppDynamics, founded in 2008 and lead by proven innovators, is looking for a passionate UI Engineer to design, architect, and develop our their user interface using the latest web and mobile technologies. Make the impossible possible and the hard easy. Apply here.


• Software Engineer - Infrastructure & Big Data – AppDynamics, leader in next generation solutions for managing modern, distributed, and extremely complex applications residing in both the cloud and the data center, is looking for a Software Engineers (All-Levels) to design and develop scalable software written in Java and MySQL for backend component of software that manages application architectures. Apply here.

Fun and Informative Events

• How to Scale MySQL for Big Data Applications. A Guide to Evaluating TokuDB on March 20th at 1pm ET. You can do more than you think with the MySQL you already have. Learn how to use MySQL or MariaDB in Big Data applications by simply upgrading the storage engine with TokuDB. Register now.
  
• Snapdeal Selects Aerospike over MongoDB, Couchbase and Redis to Improve Shopper Satisfaction. After experiencing 500% growth in 2013, Snapdeal, India’s largest online marketplace, switched from 10 MongoDB servers to just two Linux servers on Amazon EC2 with Aerospike, and reduced response times to less than a millisecond. Read the case study.

Cool Products and Services

• Do Continuous MapReduce on Live Data? ScaleOut Software's hServer was built to let you hold your daily business data in-memory, update it as it changes, and concurrently run continuous MapReduce tasks on it to analyze it in real-time. We call this "stateful" analysis. To learn more check out hServer.
  
• As one of the fastest growing VoIP services in the world Viber has replaced MongoDB with Couchbase Server, supporting 100,000+ operations per second in the short term and 1,000,000+ operations per second in the long term for their third generation architecture.  See the full story on the Viber switch.
  
• Log management made easy with Logentries. Billions of log events analyzed every day to unlock insights from the log data the matters to you. Simply powerful search, tagging, alerts, live tail and more for all of your log data. Automated AWS log collection and analytics, including CloudWatch events.
  
• LogicMonitor is the cloud-based IT performance monitoring solution that enables companies to easily and cost-effectively monitor their entire IT infrastructure stack – storage, servers, networks, applications, virtualization, and websites – from the cloud. No firewall changes needed - start monitoring in only 15 minutes utilizing customized dashboards, trending graphs & alerting.
  
• MongoDB Backup Free Usage Tier Announced. We're pleased to introduce the free usage tier to MongoDB Management Service (MMS). MMS Backup provides point-in-time recovery for replica sets and consistent snapshots for sharded systems with minimal performance impact. Start backing up today at mms.mongodb.com.
  
• BlueStripe FactFinder Express is the ultimate tool for server monitoring and solving performance problems. Monitor URL response times and see if the problem is the application, a back-end call, a disk, or OS resources.
  
• aiScaler, aiProtect, aiMobile Application Delivery Controller with integrated Dynamic Site Acceleration, Denial of Service Protection and Mobile Content Management. Cloud deployable. Free instant trial, no sign-up required. http://aiscaler.com/
  
• ManageEngine Applications Manager : Monitor physical, virtual and Cloud Applications.
  
• www.site24x7.com : Monitor End User Experience from a global monitoring network.

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How to Scale MySQL for Big Data Applications

A Guide to Evaluating TokuDB.

Webinar with Live Q & A

March 20th at 1pm ET

You may think that you have to buy, install, and get up to speed on a new database if you want to work with large amounts of data, but you can do more than you think with the MySQL you already have. Without having to change your application or do special tuning you can increase performance and save significant time and money when you need to scale.

Join Tokutek’s Jon Tobin as he demonstrates how to use MySQL or MariaDB in Big Data applications by simply upgrading the storage engine with TokuDB, and how to effectively evaluate TokuDB for increased performance, compression and agility.

During this webinar you will learn:

• How to dramatically increase performance without having to rewrite code
• Tips for easily evaluating TokuDB with example use cases
• How to optimize the use of your current MySQL hardware
• How to change your schema online

The webinar will include all the information you will need to immediately amp up an existing MySQL or MariaDB application, or create a new one with TokuDB. The presentation will include a live Q&A session.

Register now.

Uber is Hiring

Join the team that scales Uber supply globally! Our supply engineering team is responsible for prototyping, building, and maintaining the partner-facing platform. We're looking for experienced back-end developers who care about developing highly scalable services. Apply at https://www.uber.com/jobs/4810.

Do Continuous MapReduce on Live Data?

In an effort to make Hadoop more "real-time," an entire in-memory ecosystem has sprung up around it. The pace of change in this space makes it hard to keep up. Spark is a great tool for speeding up iterative batch processing and interactive query in Hadoop. Storm is a great tool for manipulating data as it streams by. ScaleOut hServer is often placed in these categories, but while hServer can do both of these tasks, it was built with a different purpose in mind. hServer was built to let you hold your daily business data in-memory, update it as it changes, and concurrently run continuous MapReduce tasks on it to analyze it in real-time. We call this "stateful" analysis. In short, it allows you to capture perishable business opportunities using the familiar MapReduce interface-- the same interface you use for your batch analytics. To learn more about hServer, check out www.scaleoutsoftware.com/hserver

Viber has replaced MongoDB with Couchbase Server

As one of the fastest growing VoIP services in the world, the challenge at Viber, their second-generation architecture was built on top of MongoDB shards. Next, Redis was added as a cache on top of the MongoDB shards to increase throughput. Still, MongoDB was unable to meet the high throughput requirements. Finally, a second Redis cluster was added independent of the MongoDB shards. The second-generation architecture was compromised of 150 MongoDB nodes and over 100 Redis nodes.

The third-generation architecture had to support 100,000+ operations per second in the short term and 1,000,000+ operations per second in the long term. Viber chose to build their third-generation architecture on top of Couchbase Server. The third-generation architecture is compromised of 100 to 120 Couchbase Server nodes.

Viber has been able to reduce the number of database nodes required while increasing the throughput with their third-generation architecture. For example, one of their Couchbase clusters (a ten node cluster) handles 100,000 to 200,000 operations per second with over 4.5 terabytes of data.

See the full story on the Viber switch.

We need awesome people @ Booking.com - We want YOU!

The colors of the buttons matter. The speed of your queries matter. The run time of your request matters. And you want to measure it all. We want exceptional people like you to come design next generation interfaces, solve critical scalability problems, and hack on one of the largest Perl codebases in the world.

Our diverse, international team of UX Designers, System Administrators and Perl Hackers here in Amsterdam, Netherlands needs your talents. Booking.com will offer you a competitive salary with bonuses, extensive relocation package and great opportunities for career progression within our fast growing company.

Apply online: http://www.booking.com/jobs.en-us.html?st=list

MongoDB Backup Free Usage Tier Announced

We're pleased to introduce the free usage tier to MongoDB Management Service (MMS). MMS provides free monitoring and premium backup for MongoDB.

What is MMS Backup? MMS Backup provides point-in-time recovery for replica sets and consistent snapshots for sharded systems with minimal performance impact. The backup agent continually reads the oplog and securely transfers the data to MMS so you always have an up-to-date backup.

What is the free tier? During your first 12 months using the service, any monthly bill under $5 is on us. What does $5 get you? It’s roughly enough to back up a 5GB database with 100MB of oplog data per month.

What is it for? You can use the free tier to sample backup for larger, mission critical applications. You can also use MMS during development before your data set grows. And the tier is perfect for side projects that you want to safeguard but don’t have the time to invest in building a backup strategy.

Start backing up today at mms.mongodb.com.

AppDynamics now offers a trial of its fully-featured application performance management product

AppDynamics offers an easy-to-use application performance monitoring solution for Java, .NET and PHP applications running in a live production environment. Companies like Netflix, Orbitz and Edmunds.com use AppDynamics to rapidly identify & troubleshoot root cause in their large, distributed applications.

Try AppDynamics for free with AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java & .NET apps, or a free trial of AppDynamics Pro, their fully-featured application performance management solution. Both Lite and a trial version of Pro are available for download from appdynamics.com and take only a few minutes to install. Get the free trial.

Snapdeal Selects Aerospike over MongoDB, Couchbase and Redis to Improve Shopper Satisfaction

After experiencing 500% growth in 2013, Snapdeal, India’s largest online  marketplace, switched from 10 MongoDB servers to just two Linux servers  on Amazon EC2 with Aerospike, and reduced response times to less than a  millisecond. Read the case study.

Test aiCache acceleration for free. No sign-up required.

We have set up aiCache on the Amazon Ec2 cloud to allow you to accelerate your website, test it, and optionally deploy in about 10 minutes. No sign-up required and its free.

You give us your website address and we spin up an AWS Micro instance running aiCache configured for your site. We then give you a simple configuration tool, if you want to further tune the Dynamic Caching.

You can then test your regular site and the accelerated site side by side in real time, from a third party testing service, complete with waterfall chart to tell you what is slow. With a few clicks you can tune the Dynamic Caching and re-run the test till you get the optimal config, unique to your site.

Want to deploy it? Great put in the AWS instance ID and Key and we will push it to your choice of live server.

Got everything perfect? Update your DNS or pull a copy to your datacenter.

Want help? We can have one of our engineers hop on and joint edit the config file with you, to work through tricky SSL and Session authentication. A do it yourself kinda engineer? Great context sensitive help is available of every line of the config file.

Want to save it for later, no problem. Want to download it for use on your own box, clicky-clicky free.

See the power of aiCache on your time without being bugged.  http://aiscaler.com/deploy

LogicMonitor is the Cloud-based IT Performance Monitoring Solution

LogicMonitor is the cloud-based IT performance monitoring solution that enables companies to easily and cost-effectively monitor their entire IT infrastructure stack – storage, servers, networks, applications, virtualization, and websites – from the cloud. No firewall changes needed - start monitoring in only 15 minutes utilizing customized dashboards, trending graphs & alerting.

AppDynamics Troubleshooting Java Performance for Free

AppDynamics is the very first free product designed for troubleshooting Java performance while getting full visibility in production environments. If you're an application owner and need to ensure high availability and performance--but not ready to purchase a full monitoring tool--AppDynamics Lite is build for you. Install in two minutes; be monitoring a Java Virtual Machine in 10 minutes.

Visit http://www.appdynamics.com/freetrial

ManageEngine Applications Manager

ManageEngine provides Enterprise IT Management suite of products. ManageEngine Applications Manager helps SaaS companies monitor their production applications and helps keep costs low.

There is out-of-the-box support for monitoring application servers, database servers, servers and web servers from a single web console. In addition to support for IBM Applications, Oracle Apps and Microsoft applications, there is deep support for Open Source Applications like JBoss, Memcached, LAMP stack etc.  Pricing starts at $795 for monitoring 25 servers or applications. Learn more about the Application Performance Monitoring tool.

Site24x7

Site24x7.com (from ZOHO) is a Website and Web Application Monitoring service. It helps you ensure your shopping carts and other web transactions work. It also helps you monitor the performance of your websites from a global point of presence. You can Sign Up for a Free Trial. The Professional Edition starts at $1 / Month. Learn more about the Website Monitoring Service.

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