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Unikernel Systems Joins Docker. Now this is an interesting match. The themes are security and low overhead, though they do seem to solve the same sort of problem. So, what's going on? In FLOSS WEEKLY 302 Open Mirage, starting at about 10 minutes in, there are a series
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This is a guest repost of an interview posted by Ryan S. Brown that originally appeared on serverlesscode.com. It continues our exploration of building systems on top of Lambda. Paging David Guetta fans: this week we have an interview with the team that built the site behind his latest
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Who's Hiring? * Manager - Site Reliability Engineering: Lead and grow the the front door SRE team in charge of keeping Netflix up and running. You are an expert of operational best practices and can work with stakeholders to positively move the needle on availability. Find details on the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Space walk from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Nope. A base jump from the CN Tower in Toronto.If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 13.5TB: open data from Yahoo for machine learning; 1+ exabytes: data stored in the
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How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect, gives an excellent talk on just that subject: AWS re:Invent 2015 Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users. If you are an advanced AWS user this
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This is so good! Perfect for your Monday morning jam. Uptime Funk is a music video (parody of Uptown Funk) from SUSECon 2015 in Amsterdam.My favorite: I'm all green (hot patch) Called a Penguin and Chameleon I'm all green (hot patch) Call Torvalds and Kroah-Hartman
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Finally, a clear diagram of Amazon's industry impact. (MARK A. GARLICK)If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 150: # of globular clusters in the Milky Way; 800 million: Facebook Messenger users; 180,000: high-res images of the
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There’s a long history of donating spare compute cycles for worthy causes. Most of those efforts were started in the Desktop Age. Now, in the Cloud Age, how can we donate spare compute capacity? How about through a private spot market? There are cycles to spare. Public Cloud Usage
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Who's Hiring? * Manager - Site Reliability Engineering: Lead and grow the the front door SRE team in charge of keeping Netflix up and running. You are an expert of operational best practices and can work with stakeholders to positively move the needle on availability. Find details on the
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Chapter by chapter Sergey Ignatchenko is putting together a wonderful book on the Development and Deployment of Massively Multiplayer Games, though it has much broader applicability than games. Here's a recent chapter from his book. Enter Front-End Servers [Enter Juliet] Hamlet: Thou art as sweet as the sum
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Hey, Happy New Year, it's HighScalability time: River system? Vascular system? Nope. It's a map showing how all roads really lead to Rome.If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 71: mentions of innovation by the Chinese
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In honor of a certain event what could be better than a double-bladed lightsaber slicing through clouds? (ESA/Hubble & NASA)If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 66,000 yottayears: lifetime of an electron;