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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What does a 107 football field long battery building Gigafactory look like? A lot like a giant Costco. (tour) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 60 billion: Facebook messages per day; 3x: Facebook messages compared to global
There's a meme out there that hardware is dead. Maybe not. Hardware is becoming more specialized as the general purpose CPU can't keep up. The tick-tock cycle created by Moore's law meant designers had a choice: build or buy. Make your own hardware to
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Who's Hiring? IT Security Engineering. At Gusto we are on a mission to create a world where work empowers a better life. As Gusto's IT Security Engineer you'll shape the future of IT security and compliance. We're looking for a strong IT
cassandra
This is a guest post by Alessandro Pieri, Software Architect at Stream. Try out this 5 minute interactive tutorial to learn more about Stream’s API. Originally built by Facebook in 2009, Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed database designed to handle large amounts of data across a
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Facial tats to disrupt big brother surveillance systems may actually work. Our future?If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 40.4 million: iPhones sold this quarter; 7: number of times Facebook has avoided the IRS; 104: new
serverless
We've been following an increasing ephemerality curve to get more and more utilization out of our big brawny boxes. VMs, VMs in the cloud, containers, containers in the cloud, and now serverless, which looks to be our first native cloud infrastructure. Serverless is said to be about functions,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's not too late London. There's still time to make this happen. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 40%: energy Google saves in datacenters using machine learning; 2.3: times more energy knights
ipv6
This is a guest repost by Donatas Abraitis, Lead Systems Engineer at at Hostinger International. This article is about how we built the new high scalable cloud hosting solution using IPv6-only communication between commodity servers, what problems we faced with IPv6 protocol and how we tackled them for handling more
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Who's Hiring? IT Security Engineering. At Gusto we are on a mission to create a world where work empowers a better life. As Gusto's IT Security Engineer you'll shape the future of IT security and compliance. We're looking for a strong IT
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How does Google keep all its services up and running? They almost never seem to fail. If you've ever wondered we get a wonderful peek behind the curtain in a talk given at GCP NEXT 2016 by Melissa Binde, Director, Storage SRE at Google: How Google Does Planet-Scale
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: That little smudge on Jupiter is North America (size comparison). If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * <2%: percent of total U.S. electricity consumption used by data centers; $4.99: hourly wage of Amazon Turkers; 8,
Strategy
When Lee Atchison arrived at Amazon, Amazon was in the process of moving from a large monolithic application to a Service Oriented Architecture. Lee talks about this evolution in an interesting interview on Software Engineering Daily: Scalable Architecture with Lee Atchison, about Lee's new book: Architecting for Scale: