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Joe Beda (@jbeda): Borg paper is finally out. Lots of reasoning for why we made various decisions in #kubernetes. Very exciting. The hints and allusions are over. We now have everything about Google's long rumored Borg project in one iconic Google style paper: Large-scale cluster management at Google
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Who's Hiring? * The Cloud Platform team at OpenDNS is building a PaaS for our engineering teams to build and deliver their applications. This is a well rounded team covering software, systems, and network engineering and expect your code to cut across all layers, from the network to the
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This is guest post by John Piekos, VP Engineering at VoltDB. I understand this is a little PRish, but I think the ideas are solid. The focus of many developers and architects in the past few years has been on Big Data, specifically mining historical intelligence from the Data Lake
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Beautiful, isn't it? It's the cerebral cortex of a rat that is organized like a mini-Internet. * $47 million: value of Cannabis per square km; $3.7 trillion: worldwide IT spending in 2014; $41B: spend on spectrum; 48,000 square km:
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How do you systematically identify the sources of jitter and remove them one by one in a low-latency trading system? That was the question asked on the mechanical-sympathy email list. Gil Tene, Vice President of Technology and CTO, Co-Founder, Azul Systems gave the sort of answer that comes from the
“The future is live. The future is real-time. The future is now.” I wrote that in 2010 about live video innovator Justin.tv (which pivoted into Twitch.tv). Five years later it appears the future is now once again. Meerkat has burst on the scene with a viral vengeance, so
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Luscious SpaceX photos have been launched under Creative Commons. * 1,000: age of superbug treatment; 18 million: number of laws in the US * Quotable Quotes: * @greenberg: Only in the Bay Area would you find a greeting card for closing a funding round. * @RichardWarburto: "
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Phalanx Weapon System by EumenesOfCardia For every new weapon there’s an often unexpected move made to counter it. You develop a rock, I develop a shield. You develop a castle, I develop a cannon. You develop a knight in shining armor, I develop a long bow. You develop nukes
Who's Hiring? * At Scalyr, we're analyzing multi-gigabyte server logs in a fraction of a second. That requires serious innovation in every part of the technology stack, from frontend to backend. Help us push the envelope on low-latency browser applications, high-speed data processing, and reliable distributed systems.
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This is guest post by Baron Schwartz, Founder & CEO of VividCortex, the first unified suite of performance management tools specifically designed for today's large-scale, polyglot persistence tier. VividCortex is a cloud-hosted SaaS platform for database performance management. Our customers install agents that measure the work their servers
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: @scienceporn: That Hubble Telescope picture explained in depth. I have never had anything blow my mind so hard. * hundreds of billions: files in Dropbox; $2 billion: amount Facebook saved building their own servers, racks, cooling, storage, flat fabric, etc. * Quotable Quotes: * Buckminster Fuller: I
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What will change everything this time? * Data Gravity (move compute to data) + * Containers (lightweight computation) + * Microservices (composable compute modules) That’s according to John Willis and Damon Edwards on a highly recommended recent DevOps Cafe Episode. The high concept goes something like: Containers are the killer app for microservices. Data