High Scalability

How Facebook Tells Your Friends You're Safe in a Disaster in Under Five Minutes

Here's an article update: How Facebook's Safety Check Works. In a disaster there’s a raw and immediate need to know your loved ones are safe. I felt this way during 9/11. I know I’ll feel this way during the next wild fire in

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 25th, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: How long would you have lasted? Loved The Martian. Can't wait for the game, movie, and little potato action figures. Me, I would have died on the first level. * 60 miles: new record distance for quantum teleportation; 160: size of minimum viable

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How will new memory technologies impact in-memory databases?

This is a guest post by Yiftach Shoolman, Co-founder & CTO of redislabs. Will 3D XPoint change everything? Not as much as you might hope... Recently, investors, analysts, partners and customers have asked me how the announcement from Intel and Micron about their new 3D XPoint memory technology will affect

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Uber Goes Unconventional: Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter

In How Uber Scales Their Real-Time Market Platform one of the most intriguing hints was how Uber handles datacenter failovers using driver phones as an external distributed storage system for recovery. Now we know a lot more about how that system works from Uber's Nikunj Aggarwal and Joshua

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 18th, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is how you blast microprocessors with high-energy beams to test them for space. * terabits: Facebook's network capacity; 56.2 Gbps: largest extortion DDoS attack seen by Akamai; 220: minutes spent usings apps per day; $33 billion: 2015 in-app purchases; 2334: web

How Uber Scales Their Real-time Market Platform

Reportedly Uber has grown an astonishing 38 times bigger in just four years. Now, for what I think is the first time, Matt Ranney, Chief Systems Architect at Uber, in a very interesting and detailed talk--Scaling Uber's Real-time Market Platform---tells us a lot about how Uber’s software

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 11th, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Need a challenge? Solve the code on this 17.5 feet tall 11,000 year old wooden statue! * $100 million: amount Popcorn could have made from criminal business offers; 3.2-gigapixel: World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera; $17.3 trillion: US GDP in 2014;

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Trade Stimulators and the Very Old Idea of Increasing User Engagement

Very early in my web career I was introduced to the almost mystical holy grail of web (and now app) properties: increasing user engagement. The reason is simple. The more time people spend with your property the more stuff you can sell them. The more stuff you can sell the

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Want IoT? Here's How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters

I serendipitously found this fascinating reply by Richard Farley, your friendly neighborhood meter reader, in a local email list giving a rare first-hand account of how the Advanced Metering Infrastructure works in California. This is real Internet of Things territory. So if it doesn't have a typical post

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 4th, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: An astonishing 300 billion stars in our galaxy have planets. Take a look in the Eyes on Exoplanets app. * 1 billion: people who used Facebook in a single day; 2.8 million: sq. ft. in new Apple campus (with drone pics); 1.1 trillion:

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How Facebook Tells Your Friends You're Safe in a Disaster in Under Five Minutes

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 25th, 2015

How will new memory technologies impact in-memory databases?

Uber Goes Unconventional: Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 18th, 2015

Sponsored Post: Microsoft, Instrumental, Location Labs, Enova, Librato, Surge, Redis Labs, Jut.io, VoltDB, Datadog, SignalFx, InMemory.Net, VividCortex, MemSQL, Scalyr, AiScaler, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

How Uber Scales Their Real-time Market Platform

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 11th, 2015

Trade Stimulators and the Very Old Idea of Increasing User Engagement

Want IoT? Here's How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 4th, 2015