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Who's Hiring? * Electronic Art's is hiring a QA Engineer and a Cloud Architect for their Pogo.com team. * Appirio is hiring 5 core product engineers for one of Silicon's Valley's "most promising startups". Fun and Informative Events * Percona Live to
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The Relational Cloud Project is an effort by a group of researchers at MIT to investigate technologies and challenges related to Database-as-a-Service within cloud-computing. They are trying to figure out how the advantages of the DaaS (Database-as-a-Service) model, that we've seen arise in other areas like OLAP and
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... * On the new year Twitter set a record with 6,939 Tweets Per Second (TPS). Cool video visualizing New Year's Eve Tweet data across the world. * Marko Rodriguez in Memoirs of a Graph Addict: Despair to Redemption tells a stirring tale of how
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A giant step into the fully distributed future has been taken by the Google App Engine team with the release of their High Replication Datastore. The HRD is targeted at mission critical applications that require data replicated to at least three datacenters, full ACID semantics for entity groups, and lower
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How would you implement a key-value storage system if you were starting from scratch? The approach Basho settled on with Bitcask, their new backend for Riak, is an interesting combination of using RAM to store a hash map of file pointers to values and a log-structured file system for efficient
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I know people are always interested in what others are using to build their systems. Alex Payne, CTO of the new startup BankSimple, gives us a quick hit on their toolchain choices in this Quora thread. BankSimple positions itself as a customer-focused alternative to online banking. You may remember Alex
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Who's Hiring? * Electronic Art's is hiring a QA Engineer and a Cloud Architect for their Pogo.com team. Fun and Informative Events * A new round of Membase meetups have been planned for January 2011 for San Diego, Denver, Seattle, Vancouver and Chicago. * O'Reilly'
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... * Quotable Quotes * @hofmanndavid: Performance and scalability anxiety makes developers want to catch the flying butterflies * @tivrfoa: "Scalability solutions aren't magic. They involve partitioning, indexing and replication." Twitter engineer * Alan Perlis: Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove
To celebrate the new year Facebook has shared the results of a little end of the year introspection. It has been a fecund year for Facebook: * 43,869,800 changed their status to single * 3,025,791 changed their status to "it's complicated" * 28,460,516
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How do you keep a system small enough, while still being successful, that a simple scale-up strategy becomes the preferred architecture? StackOverflow, for example, could stick with a tool chain they were comfortable with because they had a natural brake on how fast they could grow: there are only so
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In 5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS, Netflix's John Ciancutti says the best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly. In the cloud it's expected instances can fail at any time, so you always have to be prepared. In the real world we prepare
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For a great Christmas read forget The Night Before Christmas, a heart warming poem written by Clement Moore for his children, that created the modern idea of Santa Clause we all know and anticipate each Christmas eve. Instead, curl up with a some potent eggnog, nog being any drink made