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Who's Hiring? * Apple is hiring a Software Engineer for Maps Services. The Maps Team is looking for a developer to support and grow some of the core backend services that support Apple Map's Front End Services. Ideal candidate would have experience with system architecture, as well
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hear ye puny mortal. 1.3 million Earths doth fill our Sun. Whence comes this monster black hole with a mass 12 billion times that of the Sun? * 1 Terabit of Data per Second: 5G; 1.9 Terabytes: customer in stadium data usage during
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Now that you’ve transformed your system through successive evolutions of architecture goodness...you've made it cloud native, you now treat a fist full of datacenters as a single computer, you’ve microservicized it, you’ve containerized it, you’re continuously releasing and improving it, you’ve made
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This is a guest repost by Rinat Abdullin, who worked on HappyPancake, the largest free dating site in Sweden. Initially written in ASP.NET and MS SQL Database server, it eventually became overly complex and expensive to scale. This is the last post in a nearly two year long series
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Networks are everywhere, they can even help reveal disease connections. * trillions: number of photons constantly hitting your eyes; $19 billion: Snapchat valuation; 8.5K: average number of questions asked on Stack Overflow per day * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: End of 2014: 3.75-4bn mobiles ~1.
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“The trouble ain’t that people are ignorant: it’s that they know so much that ain’t so." -- Josh Billings Is Parallel Programming Hard? Yes. What Can You Do About It? To answer that, Paul McKenney, Distinguished Engineer at IBM Linux Technology Center, vetran of parallel powerhouses
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Who's Hiring? * Apple is hiring a Application Security Engineer. Apple’s Gift Card Engineering group is looking for a software engineer passionate about application security for web applications and REST services. Be part of a team working on challenging and fast paced projects supporting Apple's business
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The team at PAPER estimated their article (NSFW) containing pictures of a very naked Kim Kardashian would quickly receive over 100 million page views. The very definition of bursty viral driven traffic. As a comparison in 2013 it was estimated Google processed over 500 million searches a day. So a
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Stunning depiction of every space mission over the past 50 years. (Max Roser) * 700 billion: Apple's valuation; 1: Number of lines of code it takes to bring down UK air traffic control; 20: how old that line of code was in years;
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If you are one of those people that think most of the products featured on HighScalability use way too many servers then you'll love this story: 130 VMs serving less than 10,000 users daily were chopped down to just one machine. Here's the setup. A
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This is guest post by Nerijus Bendžiūnas and Tomas Varaneckas of Vinted. Vinted is a peer-to-peer marketplace to sell, buy and swap clothes. It allows members to communicate directly and has the features of a social networking service. Started in 2008 as a small community for Lithuanian girls, it developed
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What a beautiful example of Moore's law visualized through the evolution of Lara Croft! (from @silenok) * $1 million: per day gross of Clash of Clans * Quotable Quotes: * @dancow: In 45 minutes, the largest trader in U.S. equities went bankrupt because of