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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
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: We've had a wee bit of a storm in the bay area. * 33 million: things in the American Museum of Natural History; 40 million: Target credit cards compromised; 300 Million: Instagram monthly users; 1 billion: Telegram daily messages * Quotable Quotes: * Judge Richard
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Increasing responsiveness by parallelizing and prefetching content using hints and dependency graphs, is an old concept, but seldom do we see such a nice tight example of the benefit as is given by the great Ilya Grigorik in this G+ post. The insight here is that we're initiating
This is an article published a few years ago, but as today is Grace Hopper's birthday I thought it would be a good time to share again an amazing talk from this amazing woman. Computing pioneer Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler, searched for a concrete way to
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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
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: InfoSec Taylor Swift is wise...haters gonna hate. * 6 billion+: Foursquare checkins; 25000: allocs for every keystroke in Chrome's Omnibox * Quotable Quotes: * @wattersjames: Pretty convinced that more value is created by networks of products in today's world than 'stacks&
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James Hamilton hid a pearl of wisdom inside Why Renewable Energy (Alone) Won't Full Solve the Problem that I think is well worth prying out: I’ve long advocated the use of economic incentives to drive innovative uses of computing resources inside the company while preventing costs from
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This is a guest post by Jose Romaniello, Head of Engineering, at Auth0. There is a new version of this post! Check out Auth0 Architecture - Running In Multiple Cloud Providers And Regions (2018). Auth0 provides authentication, authorization and single sign on services for apps of any type: mobile, web,
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Who's Hiring? * Apple has multiple openings. Changing the world is all in a day's work at Apple. Imagine what you could do here. * Sr. Software Engineer-iOS Systems. Do you love building highly scalable, distributed web applications? Does the idea of performance tuning Java applications make your
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This is a guest repost by Leandro Moreira. When we usually are interested about scalability we look for links, explanations, books, and references. This mini article links to the references I think might help you in this journey. DISCLAIMER: You don’t need to have N machines to build/test
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Sweet dreams brave Philae. May you awaken to a bright-throned dawn for one last challenge. * 80 million: bacteria xferred in a juicy kiss; * Quotable Quotes: * James Hamilton: Every day, AWS adds enough new server capacity to support all of Amazon's global infrastrucrture
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Performance guru Martin Thompson gave a great talk at Strangeloop: Aeron: Open-source high-performance messaging, and one of the many interesting points he made was how much performance is being lost because were aren't configuring machines properly. This point comes on the observation that "Loss, throughput, and buffer