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I mainly know of Matt Cutts, long time Google employee (since 2000) and currently head of Google's Webspam team, from his appearances on TwiT with Leo Laporte. On TwiT Matt always comes off as smart, thoughtful, and a really nice guy. This you might expect. What I didn’
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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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On the excellent Accidental Tech Podcast there's a running conversation about Marco Arment's (Tumblr, Instapaper) switch to Go, from a much loved PHP, to implement feed crawling for Overcast, his popular podcasting app for the iPhone. In Episode 101 (at about 1:10) Marco said he
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's a strange world...exotic, gigantic molecules Fit Inside Each Other like Russian nesting dolls * 1.39 billion: Facebook Monthly Active Users; $18 billion profit: Apple in 3 months; 200 million: Kik users; 11.2 billion: age of the oldest known solar
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RIP to my fallen robot followers on Instagram, if there's a heaven for robot instagram users, you guys are in there — alldaychubbyboy (@Allday) How do you scale to handle increased user traffic? Have less traffic. No, this is not a koan. The best way to deal with traffic
I was excited to see that Pat Helland has published another thought provoking paper: Immutability Changes Everything. If video is more your style, Pat gave a wonderful talk on the same subject at RICON2012 (video, slides). It's fun to see how Pat's thinking is evolving over
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Elon Musk: The universe is really, really big [Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K]] * 90: is the new 50 for woman designer; $656.8 million: 3 months of Uber payouts; $10 billion: all it takes to build the Internet in space; 1 billion: registered WeChat users
Database
This is a guest post by Jenny Richards, a professional database administrator who is currently employed at Remote DBA. In the world of databases, there is no single silver bullet fitting for every gun. How you select the database to use is very dependent on every other factor of your
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Who's Hiring? * Senior DevOps Engineer — SocialRadar. We are a VC funded startup based in Washington, D.C. operated like our West Coast brethren. We specialize in location-based technology. Since we are rapidly consuming large amounts of location data and monitoring all social networks for location events, we have
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: First people to free-climb the Dawn Wall of El Capitan using nothing but stone knives and bearskins (pics). * $3.3 trillion: mobile revenue in 2014; ~10%: the difference between a good SpaceX landing and a crash; 6: hours for which quantum memory was held
Example
StackExchange created a very cool performance dashboard that looks to be updated from real system metrics. Wouldn't it be fascinating if every site had a similar dashboard? The dashboard contains information like there are 560 million page views per month, 260,000 sustained connections, 34 TB data transferred
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James Hamilton, VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, and long time blogger of interesting stuff, gave an enthusiastic talk at AWS re:Invent 2014 on AWS Innovation at Scale. He’s clearly proud of the work they are doing and it shows. James shared a few eye popping stats about