Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: LiDAR sees an enchanted world. (Luminar) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 14TB: Western Digital Hard Drive; 3B: Yahoo's perfidy; ~80%: companies traded on U.S. stock market 1950-2009 were gone by 2009; 21%: conversion
blockchain
This is a guest post by Mark Travis, Performance Engineer at Ripple. Ripple’s XRP Ledger is a blockchain-based payment network that transfers funds between any type of currency within a few seconds with average transaction costs of a fraction of a penny. The core of this peer-to-peer network is
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know plotted over time. Click on and move the slider to see changes. There were a lot more blocks in 1990. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1040: undergrads enrolled in Stanford&
microservices
This is a guest post by Roger Jin, Software Architect at ButterCMS and co-author of Microservices for Startups. For a profession that stresses the importance of naming things well, we've done ourselves a disservice with microservices. The problem is that that there is nothing inherently "micro"
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Who's Hiring? * Advertise your job here! Fun and Informative Events * October 10 Live Webinar. Fast & Frictionless - The Decision Engine for Seamless Digital Business. Join us for a live webinar on Tuesday, October 10 at 11:00 am Pacific Time featuring guest speakers Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Ever feel like howling at the universe? (Greg Rakozy) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 10 billion: API calls made every second in Google datacenters; $767,758,000,000: collected by Apple on iPhones sold to the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Earth received Cassini’s final signal at 7:55am ET. Let's bid a fond farewell. After a 13-year tour of duty, job well done! If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 12.9 million: DynamoDB requests
Thanks to zero marginal cost digital production methods, we're seeing content markets—for the first time—develop in conditions free from supply and price constraints. In the process we've learned something: consumers have an unquenchable thirst for new content; content creators are willing to oblige with
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Who's Hiring? * Close.io is a ~25 person fully remote team that is profitable and building a product our customers love! We’re hiring Senior Backend Developers to join our team. Our backend tech stack currently includes Python (Flask, Gunicorn, TaskTiger), Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis running in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: May you live in interesting times. China games swarming drone attacks. Portable EMP anyone? (Tech in Asia) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 100GB: entire corpus of articles written at the NY Times; 80GB: data for one
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Obviously, cloud native is simplicity itself. (Cloud Native Landscape Project) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * $10: price for IPv4 address (and falling); 10-15%: better IPv6 network performance; 711M: Record Onliner Spambot Dump; 41.4-tesla: strongest resistive
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Who's Hiring? * Close.io is a ~25 person fully remote team that is profitable and building a product our customers love! We’re hiring Senior Backend Developers to join our team. Our backend tech stack currently includes Python (Flask, Gunicorn, TaskTiger), Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis running in