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Are there ideas in IT that must die for progress to be made? Max Planck wryly observed that scientific progress is often less meritocracy and more Lord of the Flies: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The amazing story of Voyager's walkabout and the three body problem. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * $18 billion: wasted on US Army Future Combat system; 70%: Americans who support an Internet
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This is a guest repost from Calvin French-Owen, CTO/Co-Founder of Segment. In Segment’s early days, our infrastructure was pretty hacked together. We provisioned instances through the AWS UI, had a graveyard of unused AMIs, and configuration was implemented three different ways. As the business started taking off, we
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The other world beauty of the world's largest underground Neutrino Detector. Yes, this is a real thing. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 170,000: depression era photos; $465m: amount lost due
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This is a guest post by Donatas Abraitis, System Engineer at Vinted, with an unusual approach for saving a little bandwidth. Looking at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1323 there is a nice title: 'TCP Extensions for High Performance'. It's worth to take a look at
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Who's Hiring? * As a Networking & Systems Software Engineer at iStreamPlanet you’ll be driving the design and implementation of a high-throughput video distribution system. Our cloud-based approach to video streaming requires terabytes of high-definition video routed throughout the world. You will work in a highly-collaborative, agile environment
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For a long time now stateless services have been the royal road to scalability. Nearly every treatise on scalability declares statelessness as the best practices approved method for building scalable systems. A stateless architecture is easy to scale horizontally and only requires simple round-robin load balancing. What’s not to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Best selfie ever? All vacation photos taken by Apollo astronauts are now online. Fakes, obvi. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * millions: # of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet; 8%
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Here's an interesting nugget from a wonderfully written and deeply interesting article by Roger Hodge in the New Republic: A radical experiment at Zappos to end the office workplace as we know it: Zappos's customer-facing web site has been basically frozen for the last few years
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Pretty much all your load generation and monitoring tools do not work correctly. Those charts you thought were full of relevant information about how your system is performing are really just telling you a lie. Your sensory inputs are being jammed. To find out how listen to the Morpheous of
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Elon Musk's presentation of the Tesla Model X had more in common with a new iPhone event than a traditional car demo. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 1.4 billion: Android
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When nanoseconds matter you have to pay attention to OS scheduling details. Mark Price, who works in the rarified high performance environment of high finance, shows how in his excellent article on Reducing system jitter. For a tuning example he uses the famous Disrupter inter-thread messaging library. The goal is