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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In case you were wondering, the world is weird. Large Hadron Collider discovers new pentaquark particle. * 3x: Uber bigger than taxi market; 250x: traffic in HotSchedules' DDoS attack; 92%: Apple’s share of the smartphone profit pie; 7: Airbnb rejections * Quotable Quotes: * Netflix:
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In response to an honest comment about some of Instagram's rather "ordinary engineering choices", mikeyk (Co-founder @ Instagram) had what I consider the perfect response: We (at IG) aren't claiming to be doing revolutionary things on infrastructure--but one thing I found super valuable when scaling
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This article originally appeared on ITHare.com. It's one article from an excellent series of articles: Part I. Client Side; Part IIa. Protocols and APIs; Part IIb; Protocols and APIs; Part IIIb. Server-Side (deployment, optimizations, and testing); Part IV. Great TCP-vs-UDP Debate; Part V. UDP; Part VI. TCP.
PlentyOfFish was acquired by the Match Group for $575 million in cash. And it all goes to Markus Frind. Here's the story of the acquisition. Way back in 2009 I wrote architecture article on PlentyOfFish, which I'll reproduce here for historical perspective. The main theme at
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Guest post by Julien Lemoine, co-founder & CTO of Algolia, a developer friendly search as a service API. The most frequent questions we answer for developers and devops are about our architecture and how we achieve such high availability. Some of them are very skeptical about high availability with bare
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Spying on an ant holding its favorite microchip. (@SciencePorn) * 1,425%: malware attack ROI; 33333/sec: BP oil well datapoints generated; 8 million: mumified dogs; 5 billion: Apple map requests per week; 10 billion: parameter neural net in your basement; 1 trillion: records in
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Who's Hiring? * Make Tumblr fast, reliable and available for hundreds of millions of visitors and tens of millions of users. As a Site Reliability Engineer you are a software developer with a love of highly performant, fault-tolerant, massively distributed systems. Apply here now! * At Scalyr, we're
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Joseph Campbell: As Schopenhauer says, when you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect. So, I have a theory that if you
This is a guest post by Ashish Mohindroo, who leads Product for Happy Apps, a new uptime and performance monitoring system. It isn't uncommon for system administrators to receive a stream of alarms for situations that either can wait to be addressed, will remedy themselves, or simply weren&
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Who's Hiring? * Make Tumblr fast, reliable and available for hundreds of millions of visitors and tens of millions of users. As a Site Reliability Engineer you are a software developer with a love of highly performant, fault-tolerant, massively distributed systems. Apply here now! * At Scalyr, we're
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While at Netflix and LinkedIn Siddharth "Sid" Anand wrote some great articles for HS. Sid is back, this time as a Data Architect at Agari. Original article is here. Data-rich companies (e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, and Twitter) have historically built custom data pipelines over bare metal in
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