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Misco: A MapReduce Framework for Mobile Systems is a very exciting paper to me because it's really one of the first explorations of some of the ideas in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud. What they are trying to do is
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This is a guest post by Frédéric Faure (architect at Ysance), you can follow him on twitter. How do you scale an AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure? This article will give you a detailed reply in two parts: the tools you can use to make the most of Amazon’s
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* Ezra Zygmuntowicz in a heart warming account of his 4 Years at Engine Yard, has concluded in his experience that: the true future of cloud computing for developers is to not think about servers at all. It is now time to focus on the Application and new levels of abstraction
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This is an interesting tidbit from near the end of the Packet Pushers podcast Show 15 – Saving the Web With Dinky Putt Putt Firewalls. The conversation was about how SSL connections need to terminate before they can be processed by a WAF (Web Application Firewall), which inspects HTTP for security
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The title of this post is a quote from Ilya Grigorik's post Weak Consistency and CAP Implications. Besides the article being excellent, I thought this idea had something to add to the great NoSQL versus RDBMS debate, where Mike Stonebraker makes the argument that network partitions are rare
Who's Hiring? * Okta is hiring! Okta provides a ground-breaking cloud adoption and management solution and they are looking for people in many different areas. * ezRez is a B2B SaaS provider looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer Cool Products and Services * Cloud Sigma. Instantly scalable
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* Twitter Sees Its 20 Billionth Tweet writes Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb. * Startups die for not having customers, so STOP thinking about how to scale. Alessandro Orsi says focusing on the architecture and scaling possibilities of your app for millions of users is just plain dumb...concentrate on marketing...concentrate on
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If Google was a boxer then MapReduce would be a probing right hand that sets up the massive left hook that is Dremel, Google's—scalable (thousands of CPUs, petabytes of data, trillions of rows), SQL based, columnar, interactive (results returned in seconds), ad-hoc—analytics system. If Google was
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Robert Johnson, a director of engineering at Facebook, celebrated Facebook's monumental achievement of reaching 500 million users by sharing the scaling principles that helped reach that milestone. In case you weren't suitably impressed by the 500 million user number, Robert ratchets up the numbers game with
For some Friday Fun nerd style, I thought this demonstration from Basho on the difference between single master, sharding, and consistent smashing was really clever. I love the use of safety glasses! And it's harder to crash a server with a hammer than you might think... Recommended reading:
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* Jeremy Zawodny, while performing data alchemy in the dungeons of Craigslist, stored 1,250,000,000 Key/Value Pairs in Redis on a 32GB Machine. * Data sorting world record: 1 terabyte, 1 minute. The system has 52 computer nodes, each node is a commodity server with two quad-core processors, 24
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Should you pay more in the cloud or pay less for bare metal in the datacenter? This is a crucial decision point facing startups today. Which way should you go? In this Webpulp.tv interview, Joe Stump, always a go-to guy when you need a metric ass-ton (a favorite expression