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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A phrase you've probably heard a lot this week: AWS announces...If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 18 minutes: latency to Mars; 100TB: biggest dynamodb table; 55M: visits to Kaiser were virtual; $2 Billion: yearly
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This is a guest repost Barzan Mozafari, an assistant professor at University of Michigan and an advisor to a new startup, snappydata.io, that recently launched an open source OLTP + OLAP Database built on Spark. Almost everyone these days is complaining about performance in one way or another. It’s
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Margaret Hamilton was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for writing Apollo guidance software. Oddly, she's absent from best programmers of all time lists.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 98 seconds: before camera
Sergey Ignatchenko continues his excellent book series with a new chapter on databases. This is a guest repost. The idea of single-write-connection is used extensively in the post, as it's defined elsewhere I asked Sergey for a definition so the article would make a little more sense... As
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Who's Hiring? * The New York Times is looking for a Software Engineer for its Delivery/Site Reliability Engineering team. You will also be a part of a team responsible for building the tools that ensure that the various systems at The New York Times continue to operate in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Now you don't have to shrink yourself to see inside a computer. Here's a fully functional 16-bit computer that's over 26 square feet huge! Bighex machine. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on
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This is a guest post by Urban Airship. Contributors: Adam Lowry, Sean Moran, Mike Herrick, Lisa Orr, Todd Johnson, Christine Ciandrini, Ashish Warty, Nick Adlard, Mele Sax-Barnett, Niall Kelly, Graham Forest, and Gavin McQuillan Urban Airship is trusted by thousands of businesses looking to grow with mobile. Urban Airship is
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hacking recognition systems with fashion. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 9 teraflops: PC GPU performance for VR rendering; 1.75 million requests per second: DDoS attack from cameras; 5GB/mo: average data consumption in the US;
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Who's Hiring? * The New York Times is looking for a Software Engineer for its Delivery/Site Reliability Engineering team. You will also be a part of a team responsible for building the tools that ensure that the various systems at The New York Times continue to operate in
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This is a guest post by Siddharth Ram – Chief Architect, Small Business. Siddharth_ram@intuit.com. The QuickBooks ecosystem is the largest small business SaaS product. The QuickBooks Platform supports bookkeeping, payroll and payment solutions for small businesses, their customers and accountants worldwide. Since QuickBooks is also a compliance &
Well, not exactly Fishin', but I'll be on a month long vacation starting today. I won't be posting (much) new content, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know. Please use this time for quiet contemplation and other inappropriate activities. See you
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We've had databases targeting consistency. These are your typical RDBMSs. We've had databases targeting availability. These are your typical NoSQL databases. If you're using your CAP decoder ring you know what's next...what databases do we have that target making concurrency a