High Scalability

Is NoSQL a Premature Optimization that's Worse than Death? Or the Lady Gaga of the Database World?

Michael Stonebraker sure knows how to stir up a storm. Unlike for others, that doesn't make him a troll in my mind, he's way too accomplished in the field to be that, but he does have a bit of Barnum & Bailey in him, which serves

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 22, 2011

Submitted for your scaling pleasure: * Google's PageRank involves 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. SeaMicro Packs 768 Cores Into its Atom Server. Twitter: 1 Billion Items Delivered A Day Is Nice, Google+. We Do 350 Billion. * Potent quotables: * @merv - Does elastic scalability matter? Ask Apple about

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Netflix: Harden Systems Using a Barrel of Problem Causing Monkeys - Latency, Conformity, Doctor, Janitor, Security, Internationalization, Chaos

With a new Planet of the Apes coming out, this may be a touchy subject with our new overlords, but Netflix is using a whole lot more trouble injecting monkeys to test and iteratively harden their systems. We learned previously how Netflix used Chaos Monkey, a tool to test failover

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New Relic Architecture - Collecting 20+ Billion Metrics a Day

This is a guest post by Brian Doll, Application Performance Engineer at New Relic. New Relic’s multitenant, SaaS web application monitoring service collects and persists over 100,000 metrics every second on a sustained basis, while still delivering an average page load time of 1.5 seconds. We believe

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 15, 2011

Submitted for your scaling pleasure: * That's a lot of data...CERN: ATLAS produces up to 320M bytes per second, followed by CMS with 220M Bps. Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects. CERN also has an open source hardware effort. * Domas Mituzas on why Facebook may just outlast

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Google+ is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too: Closure, Java Servlets, JavaScript, BigTable, Colossus, Quick Turnaround

Joseph Smarr, former CTO of Plaxo (which explains why I recognized his picture), in I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything, reveals the stack used for building Google+: Our stack is pretty standard fare for Google apps these days: we use Java servlets for

ATMCash Exploits Virtualization for Security - Immutability and Reversion

This is a guest post by Ran Grushkowsky, Head of Technology at ATMCash. Virtualization and cloud-based systems are very hype in the industry; however, most financial companies stray from those solutions. At ATMCash, we’ve approached virtualization not for the usual reason of scalability, but for the usually missed value

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 8, 2011

Submitted for your scaling pleasure: * Facebook confirms 750 million users, sharing 4 billion items daily; Yahoo: 42,000 Hadoop nodes storing 180-200 petabytes; Formspring hits 25 million users. * Zynga's Cadir Lee: It’s not the amount of hardware that matters. It’s the architecture of the application. You

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Myth: Google Uses Server Farms So You Should Too - Resurrection of the Big-Ass Machines

For a long epoch there was a strategy of scaling up by making ever bigger super computers. I had the pleasure of programming on a few large massively multi-processor machines from SGI and DEC. Beautiful, highly specialized machines that were very expensive. These met the double-tap extinction event of Moore&

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