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A great question came up on the mechanical-sympathy list that many others probably have as well: I keep hearing about [Docker] as if it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I've heard anecdotal evidence that low latency apps take a hit. Who better to answer than
When AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) was first announced it was right inline with Google’s long standing project to make the web faster. Nothing seemingly out of the ordinary. Then I listened to a great interview on This Week in Google with Richard Gingras, Head of News at Google, that
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cheesy Star Trek graphics? Nope. It's hot gas streaming into Pandora’s Cluster.If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 100 million: John Henry as played by a conventional computer loses to a
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For the first time in ten years there has been an update to the classic Red Book, Readings in Database Systems, which offers "readers an opinionated take on both classic and cutting-edge research in the field of data management." Editors Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Michael Stonebraker
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Who's Hiring? * Senior Devops Engineer - StatusPage.io is looking for a senior devops engineer to help us in making the internet more transparent around downtime. Your mission: help us create a fast, scalable infrastructure that can be deployed to quickly and reliably. * At Scalyr, we're
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This is a guest post by Marcel Panse and Sander Nagtegaal from Teletext.io. In our early Peecho days, we wrote an article explaining how to build a really scalable architecture for next to nothing, using Amazon Web Services. Auto-scaling, merciless decoupling and even automated bidding on unused server capacity
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Change: Elliott $800,000 in 1960, 8K RAM, 2kHz CPU vs Raspberry Pi Zero, $5, 1Ghz, 512MBIf you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 434,000: square-feet in Facebook's new office; $62.5 billion:
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When you look at large scale systems from Google, Twitter, eBay, and Amazon, their architecture has evolved into something similar: a set of polyglot microservices. What does it looks like when you are in the polyglot microservices end state? Randy Shoup, who worked in high level positions at both Google
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The most detailed picture of the Internet ever as compiled by an illegal 420,000-node botnet. * $40 billion: P2P lending in China; 20%: amount of all US margin expansion accounted for by Apple since 2010; 11: years of Saturn photos; 117: number of different
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Who's Hiring? * Senior Devops Engineer - StatusPage.io is looking for a senior devops engineer to help us in making the internet more transparent around downtime. Your mission: help us create a fast, scalable infrastructure that can be deployed to quickly and reliably. * As a Networking & Systems
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This is a guest repost from Christophe Limpalair of his interview with Max Schnur, Web Developer at Wistia. Wistia is video hosting for business. They offer video analytics like heatmaps, and they give you the ability to add calls to action, for example. I was really interested in learning how
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: 100 years ago people saw this as our future. We will be so laughably wrong about the future. * $24 billion: amount telcos make selling data about you; $500,000: cost of iOS zero day exploit; 50%: a year's growth of internet users