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Book
This is a guest post from Vlad Mihalcea the author of the High-Performance Java Persistence book, on the notion of performance and scalability in enterprise systems. An enterprise application needs to store and retrieve as much data and as fast as possible. In application performance management, the two most important
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Who wants in on the over? We are not alone if the probability a habitable zone planet develops a technological species is larger than 10-24.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 100,000+: bare metal servers run
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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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Universe in one image (Pablo Budassi). Imagine an ancient being leaning over, desperately scrying to figure out what they have wrought.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 50 minutes: Facebook daily average use; 1.
cloud
Where’s the magic? [Amazon] The databasing and streaming and syncing infrastructure we build on is pretty slick, but that’s not the secret. The management tools are nifty, too; but that’s not it either. It’s
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Who's Hiring? * Software Engineer (DevOps). You are one of those rare engineers who loves to tinker with distributed systems at high scale. You know how to build these from scratch, and how to take a system that has reached a scalability limit and break through that barrier to
docker
This is a guest repost from Baqend Tech on deploying and redeploying an Apache Storm cluster on top of Docker Swarm instead of deploying on VMs. It's an interesting topic because of the experience Wolfram Wingerath called it "a real joy", which is not a phrase
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A perfect 10. Really stuck that landing. Nadia Comaneci approves.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * $1B: Supercell’s Clash Royale projected annual haul; 3x: Messenger and WhatsApp send more messages than SMS; 20%: of
Example
Today Twitter is creating and persisting 3,000 (200 GB) images per second. Even better, in 2015 Twitter was able to save $6 million due to improved media storage policies. It was not always so. Twitter in 2012 was primarily text based. A Hogwarts without all the cool moving pictures
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What happens when Beyoncé meets eCommerce? Ring the alarm.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * $14 billion: one day of purchases on Alibaba; 47 megawatts: Microsoft's new data center space for its MegaCloud;
An interesting question came up on the mechanical-sympathy list about how to best benchmark a stack of different queue (aeron/argona, jctools, dpdk, pony) and transport (aeron, dpdk, seastar) options. Who better to answer than Gil Tene, Vice President of Technology and CTO, Co-Founder, of Azul Systems? Here's
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Who's Hiring? * Software Engineer (DevOps). You are one of those rare engineers who loves to tinker with distributed systems at high scale. You know how to build these from scratch, and how to take a system that has reached a scalability limit and break through that barrier to