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We've had a few articles on the StackOverlflow Architecture and Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month. Time for another update. This time from a podcast. Every week or so Jeff, Joel and guests sit around and converse. The result is a
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Who's Hiring? * Grid Dynamics is hiring engineers to use the latest advances in grid and cloud computing to build scalable services. Please send your cover letter and résumé to jobs@griddynamics.com * Rocketfuel is hiring engineers to build ad-serving, bidding, modeling and data infrastructure built using a mix
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You deserve a HighScalability today: * Tumblr > Wikipedia * Potent quotables: * @tokutek : Yelp generates close to 400 GB of compressed logs per day according to @petersirota of Amazon #Strataconf #BigData. More at From Under the Desk to the Cloud * @LHK_ITRG : Massive scalability: 80,000 users on a single AppSense server.
Well, not exactly Fishin', I'll be on vacation starting today and I'll be back in mid October. I won't be posting, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know. If you've ever wanted to write an article for
Paper
And now for something completely different, brought to you by David Ackley and Daniel Cannon in their playfully thought provoking paper: Pursue robust indefinite scalability, wherein they try to take a fresh look at neural networks, starting from scratch. What is this strange thing called indefinite scalability? They sound like
Strategy
In the post Using memcache might be free, but it's costing you money with instance pricing! Use instance caches if possible made on the Google App Engine group, Santiago Lema brings up an oldie but a goody of an idea that was once used to improve performance, but
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Who's Hiring? * Grid Dynamics is hiring engineers to use the latest advances in grid and cloud computing to build scalable services. Please send your cover letter and résumé to jobs@griddynamics.com * Rocketfuel is hiring engineers to build ad-serving, bidding, modeling and data infrastructure built using a mix
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I'd walk a mile for HighScalability: * 1/12th the World Population on Facebook in One Day; 1.8 ZettaBytes of data in 2011; 1 Billion Foursquare Checkins; 2 million on Spotify; 1 Million on GitHub; $1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on EC2; Patent trolls cost .5 trillion
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Jeremy Raines tweeted a link to this cartoon my new filing technique is unstoppable, showing how scotch tape can be used to create a new super-database. Very funny in a Dilbert sort of way, but definitely not NSFW... For more on Twisted Tuesday, you may enjoy: * Hilarious Video: Relational Database
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Who's Hiring? * Rocketfuel is hiring engineers to build ad-serving, bidding, modeling and data infrastructure built using a mix of proprietary and open-source technologies. Please apply here. * FreeAgent - Senior Platform Engineer. FreeAgent is one of the UK's largest and most successful online accounting web apps, and
Product
This is a guest post by Greg Luck Founder and CTO, Ehcache Terracotta Inc. Note: this article contains a bit too much of a product pitch, but the points are still generally valid and useful. The legendary Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be
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Between love and madness lies HighScalability: * Google now 10x better: MapReduce sorts 1 petabyte of data using 8000 computers in 33 minutes; 1 Billion on Social Networks; Tumblr at 10 Billion Posts; Twitter at 100 Million Users; Testing at Google Scale: 1800 builds, 120 million test suites, 60 million tests