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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Scaling fake ratings. A 5 star 10,000 phone Chinese click farm. (English Russia) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Slovenia. A gorgeous place to break your leg. Highly recommended. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses
Well, not exactly Fishin', but I'll be on a month long vacation starting today. I won't be posting new content, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know. Please use this time for quiet contemplation and other inappropriate activities. Se vidiva kmalu!
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Did ancient Egyptians invent Wi-Fi? @sherifhanna Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and
Update: Ólafur Arnalds built a robotic music system to accompany him on the piano. He calls his system of two semi generative, self playing pianos—STRATUS. You can hear his most recent song re:member. There's more explanation in The Player Pianos pt. II and a short Facebook
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Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects cascading failures. Here's how Google handles them. This excerpt is a particularly interesting and comprehensive chapter—Chapter 22 - Addressing Cascading Failures—from Google's awesome book on Site Reliability Engineering. Worth reading if it hasn't been on your
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One of the strategies Jacob Richter describes (How we built a big data platform on AWS for 100 users for under $2 a month) in his relentless drive to lower AWS costs is moving ML from the server to the client. Moving work to the client is a time honored
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Freeman Dyson dissects Geoffrey West's book on universal scaling laws, Scale. (Image: Steve Jurvetson) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. And I'd appreciate if you would recommend my new book—Explain the Cloud
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This excerpt—Appendix B - A Collection of Best Practices for Production Services—is from Google's awesome book on Site Reliability Engineering. Worth reading if it hasn't been on your radar. And it's free! Fail Sanely Sanitize and validate configuration inputs, and respond to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Bathroom tile? Grandma's needlepoint? Nope. It's a diagram of the dark web. Looks surprisingly like a tumor. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. And I'd appreciate if you would recommend my
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Who's Hiring? * Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Make your job search O(1), not O(n). Apply here. * Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Fun and Informative Events * 5 Signs You’ve