Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
As the Kings of scaling, when Google changes its search infrastructure over to do something completely different, it's news. In Google search index splits with MapReduce, an exclusive interview by Cade Metz with Eisar Lipkovitz, a senior director of engineering at Google, we learn a bit more of
We don't have a lot of details on how Google pulled off their technically very impressive Google Instant release, but in Google Instant behind the scenes, they did share some interesting facts: * Google was serving more than a billion searches per day. * With Google Instant they served 5-7X
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humor
This is so funny I laughed until I cried! Definitely NSFW. OMG it's hilarious, but it's also not a bad overview of the issues. Especially loved: You read the latest post on HighScalability.com and think you are a f*cking Google and architect and parrot
hot links
With summer almost gone, it's time to fall into some good links... * Hibari - distributed, fault tolerant, highly available key-value store written in Erlang. In this video Scott Lystig Fritchie gives a very good overview of the newest key-value store. * Tweets of Gold * lenidot: with 12 staff, @tumblr
Paper
Can you have your ACID cake and eat your distributed database too? Yes explains Daniel Abadi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, in an epic post, The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL, coauthored with Alexander Thomson, on their paper The Case for
key-value store
Pomegranate is a novel distributed file system built over distributed tabular storage that acts an awful lot like a NoSQL system. It's targeted at increasing the performance of tiny object access in order to support applications like online photo and micro-blog services, which require high concurrency, high throughput,
Product
The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group had a meetup Wednesday on OpenStack, whose tag line is the open source, open standards cloud. I was shocked at the large turnout. 287 people registered and it looked like a large percentage of them actually showed up. I wonder, was it the gourmet
RoR
This a follow-up post to an earlier post on the Scaling Rails Screencast Series by Gregg Pollack, when there were only 13 screencasts, now there are 21. Eight more have been added on topics like load testing and database scaling. This series is of surprisingly high quality. While I didn&
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Strategy
This is a guest post by Steffen Konerow, author of the High Performance Blog. Learning how to scale isn’t easy without any prior experience. Nowadays you have plenty of websites like highscalability.com to get some inspiration, but unfortunately there is no solution that fits all websites and needs.
hot links
Lots of good links this week... * Membase, powering Farmville's 500k operations *per second*. Of course, some people contend they could do this on their old Vic-20, but this is a useful, vigorous discussion thread on Reddit. * Tweets of Gold: * kbsingh: I dont understand why some developers think its