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Do we really need another messaging system? We might if it promises to move millions of messages a second, at small microsecond latencies between machines, with consistent response times, to large numbers of clients, using an innovative design. And that’s the promise of Aeron (the Celtic god of battle,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Spectacular rendering of the solar system to scale. (Roberto Ziche) * 700: number of low-orbit satellites in a sidecar cheap internet; 130 terabytes: AdRoll ad data processed daily; 15 billion: daily Weather Channel forecasts; 1 million: AWS customers * Quotable Quotes: * @benkepes: Each AWS data center
This is a guest post by Nikhil Palekar, Systems Architect, FoundationDB. For many organizations that care a lot about strong consistency and low latency or haven’t already built a fault tolerant application tier on top of their database, adding a multiple data center (MDC) database implementation may create more
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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 Developer. We are looking for a solid senior-level Java/C programmer who will be working on security software development. This software
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Wix operates websites in the long tale. As a HTML5 based WYSIWYG web publishing platform, they have created over 54 million websites, most of which receive under 100 page views per day. So traditional caching strategies don’t apply, yet it only takes four web servers to handle all the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Google's new hyper efficient, hyper secure datacenters. (keynote, large, m, o, r e) * 2 billion: containers started every week at Google; 86%: Apple's share of handset profits; 50: number of parallel processes in the brain; $12 million: cost for every
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Podcasts are back. Since I listen to a bunch of podcasts every week I was quite surprised to learn about their resurrection. But facial hair is back too, so I will revel in my short lived trendiness. Why are podcasts back? One suggested reason is a little sad. People commute
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The idea is most jobs are small. Researchers found 82% of jobs on Facebook's cluster were less than 10 tasks. Clusters have a median utilization of under 20%. And since small jobs are particularly sensitive to stragglers the audacious solution is to proactively launch clones of a job
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A CT scanner without its clothes on. Sexy. * 255Tbps: all of the internet’s traffic on a single fiber; 864 million: daily Facebook users * Quotable Quotes: * @chr1sa: "No dominant platform-level software has emerged in the last 10 years in closed-source, proprietary form” * @joegravett:
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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. * Site Reliability Engineer. As a member of the Apple Pay SRE team, you’re expected to not just find the issues, but to
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This is a guest repost written by Andrew Harmel-Law on his real world experiences with Microservices. The original article can be found here. It’s reached the point where it’s even a cliche to state “there’s a lot written about Microservices these days.” But despite this, here’s
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is an ultrasound powered brain implant! (65nm GP CMOS technology, high speed, low power (100 µW)) * 70: percentage of the worlds transactions processed using COBOL. * Quotable Quotes: * John Siracusa: Apple has shown that it wants to succeed more than it fears being seen