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Hey, it's HighScalability time: UFOs or Floating Solar Balloon power stations? You decide. * 700 Million: WhatsApp active monthly users; 17 million: comments on Stack Exchange in 2014 * Quotable Quotes * John von Neumann: It is easier to write a new code than to understand an old one. * @BenedictEvans: Gross
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This a guest post by Alex Zhitnitsky, an engineer working at Takipi, who is on a mission to help Java and Scala developers solve bugs in production and rid the world of buggy software. How to approach the production debugging conundrum? All sorts of wild things happen when your code
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Who's Hiring? * DevOps Engineer for Wikia. Wikia is the go-to place for fan content that is created entirely by fans! As a Quantcast Top 20 site with over 120 million monthly uniques we are tackling very interesting problems at a scale you won't find at many
I don't know about you, but when I read about the exploits of people like John von Neumann, Alan Turing, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Kurt Gödel in Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson, I can't help but flash back
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: From Introduction to Metabolic Scaling Theory - From cells to ecosystems * 53 kilobytes: total amount of RAM in the world in 1953; 180-200 million: daily transactions at The Weather Channel; * Quotable Quotes * Enquist, Brian: Life operates over 21 orders of magnitude in size -
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Linus Torvalds in his usual politically correct way made a typically understated statement about “pushing the whole parallelism snake-oil” that generated almost no response whatsoever. Well, not quite. His comment on Avoiding ping pong has generated hundreds of responses, both on the original post and on Reddit. The contention: The
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Who's Hiring? * DevOps Engineer for Wikia. Wikia is the go-to place for fan content that is created entirely by fans! As a Quantcast Top 20 site with over 120 million monthly uniques we are tackling very interesting problems at a scale you won't find at many
This is a guest post by Thierry Schellenbach, CEO GetStream.io and author of the open source Stream-Framework, which enables you to build scalable newsfeeds using Cassandra or Redis. We first wrote about our newsfeed architecture on High Scalability in October 2013. Since then our open source Stream-Framework grew to
Hey, it's HighScalability time: Brilliant & hilarious keynote to finish the day at #yow14 (Matt) * 1985: more Star Wars figures on the planet than US citizens; 10,000: number loops found in human DNA; terabyte on a postage stamp: RRAM is almost here; 1.2 billion datapoints per
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This is a guest post by Matt Hunt, who leads open source projects for Bloomberg LP R&D. “Big Data” systems continue to attract substantial funding, attention, and excitement. As with many new technologies, they are neither a panacea, nor even a good fit for many common uses. Yet
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Taken from Multithreaded programming - theory and practice on reddit, which also has some very funny comments. If anything this is way too organized. What's not shown? All the little messes that have to be cleaned up after...
The end of Moore’s law is the best thing that’s happened to computing in the last 50 years. Moore’s law has been a tyranny of comfort. You were assured your chips would see a constant improvement. Everyone knew what was coming and when it was coming. The