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In It's Time for Low Latency Stephen Rumble et al. explore the idea that it's time to rearchitect our stack to live in the modern era of low-latency datacenter instead of high-latency WANs. The implications for program architectures will be revolutionary. Luiz André Barroso, Distinguished Engineer
conference
Which of the many conferences should you attend? I get this question a lot, so I compiled a list. The list isn't life, it's not a top 10, and it won't say if a conference is naughty or nice, but they are conferences I
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Scale the modern way / No brush / No lather / No rub-in / Big tube 35 cents - Drug stores / HighScalability: * GAE Serves 1.5 Billion Pages a Day * Potent quotables: * @kendallmiller : The code changes I'm most proud of are the ones few people will ever see - like I just
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. -- Corinthians With this new pricing, developments will be driven by the costs. I like to optimize my apps
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Who's Hiring? * FreeAgent - Senior Platform Engineer. FreeAgent is one of the UK's largest and most successful online accounting web apps, and we're growing at an explosive rate. * Everything is sexier in the cloud. Box is hiring operations engineers and infrastructure automation engineers to
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Scale the modern way / No brush / No lather / No rub-in / Big tube 35 cents - Drug stores / HighScalability: * 8868 Tweets per second during VMAs; Facebook: 250 million photos uploaded each day; Earth: 7 Billion People Strong * Potent quotables: * @kevinweil : Wow, 8868 Tweets per second last night during the #VMAs. And
Example
Pud of f*ckedcomany.com (FC) fame, a favorite site of the dot bomb era, and a site I absolutely loved until my company became featured, has given us a look at his backend: Why Must You Laugh At My Back End. For those whose don't remember FC&
Strategy
The world has changed. And some things that should not have been forgotten, were lost. I found these words from the Lord of the Rings echoing in my head as I listened to a fascinating presentation by Luiz André Barroso, Distinguished Engineer at Google, concerning Google's legendary past,
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You may not scale often, but when you scale, please drink HighScalability: * Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews; IBM builds 120 petabyte cluster out of 200,000 hard drives; Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours; * Potent quotables: * @kimberlycraven : To address scalability @ integration, use
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Who's Hiring? * Everything is sexier in the cloud. Box is hiring operations engineers and infrastructure automation engineers to help us revolutionize the way businesses collaborate. Please apply here. * BetterWorks is hiring a PHP Software Engineer in Los Angeles to help make enterprise software be as beautiful and usable
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One of the best projects I've ever worked on was creating a large scale web site publishing system that was almost entirely static. A large team of very talented creatives made the art work, writers penned the content, and designers generated templates. All assets were controlled in a
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You may not scale often, but when you scale, please drink HighScalability: * Akamai: - 95,811 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries. * Quotably quotable quotes: * @segphault : Linus talking about the kernel's scalability. Beneficial to have one kernel used from embedded to high-end bc improvements span use cases. * suspended