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Tim Trefren is one of the founders at Mixpanel, the most advanced analytics platform for web & mobile applications. He has many years of experience building compelling, accessible interfaces to data. To learn more, check out the Mixpanel engineering blog. Building data products is not easy. Many people are uncomfortable
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What a view! The solar eclipse at sunrise from the International Space Station. * 60 billion: rows in DynamoDB; 18.5 billion: BuzzFeed impressions * Quotable Quotes: * @postwait: Hell is other people’s APIs. * @josephruscio: .@Netflix is now 34% of US Internet traffic at night. 2B+
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Who's Hiring? * Sentient Technologies is hiring several Senior Distributed Systems Engineers and a Senior Distributed Systems QA Engineer. Sentient Technologies, is a privately held company seeking to solve the world’s most complex problems through massively scaled artificial intelligence running on one of the largest distributed compute resources
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This is a guest post by Psi Mankoski (email), Principal Engineer, Aerospike. When a customer’s business really starts gaining traction and their web traffic ramps up in production, they know to expect increased server resource load. But what do you do when memory usage still keeps on growing beyond
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This is a guest post by Oleksiy Kovyrin, Head of Technical Operations at Swiftype. Swiftype currently powers search on over 100,000 websites and serves more than 1 billion queries every month. When Matt and Quin founded Swiftype in 2012, they chose to build the company’s infrastructure using Amazon
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: 1957: 13 men delivering a computer. 2017: a person may wear 13 computing devices (via Vala Afshar) * 5.3 million/second: LinkedIn metrics collected; 1.7 billion: Tinder ratings per day * Quotable Quotes: * @jankoum: WhatsApp crossed 1B Android downloads. btw our android team is
Paper
How will your OLTP database perform if it had to scale up to 1024 cores? Not very well according to this fascinating paper: Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores, where a few intrepid chaos monkeys report the results of their fiendish experiment. The
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This is a guest post by Tommaso Barbugli the CTO of getstream.io, a web service for building scalable newsfeeds and activity streams. In January we migrated our entire infrastructure from dedicated servers in Germany to EC2 in the US. The migration included a wide variety of components, web workers,
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This is a guest post from AppLovin's VP of engineering, Basil Shikin, on the infrastructure of its mobile marketing platform. Major brands like Uber, Disney, Yelp and Hotels.com use AppLovin's mobile marketing platform. It processes 30 billion requests a day and 60 terabytes of data
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Guest post by Julien Lemoine, co-founder & CTO of Algolia, a developer friendly search as a service API. Algolia started in 2012 as an offline search engine SDK for mobile. At this time we had no idea that within two years we would have built a worldwide distributed search network.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The future of technology in one simple graph (via swardley) * $50 billion: the worth of AWS (is it low?); 21 petabytes: size of the Internet Archive; 41 million: # of views of posts about a certain dress * Quotable Quotes: * @bpoetz: programming is awesome if you
Database
This is a guest post by Nikhil Palekar, Solutions Architect, FoundationDB. The proliferation of NoSQL databases is a response to the needs of modern applications. Still, not all data can be shoehorned into a particular NoSQL model, which is why so many different database options exist in the market. As