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With Reactive Systems becoming the new old hotness, it will help to have a thorough grounding in the Actor Model. Here's a good start. Carl Hewitt in Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems gives a very thorough and relatively concise explanation of the Actor model. Here&
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We've learned mobile is different. In If You're Programming A Cell Phone Like A Server You're Doing It Wrong we learned programming for a mobile platform is its own specialty. In How Facebook Makes Mobile Work At Scale For All Phones, On All Screens,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What could this be? Swarms of drones painting 3D light sculptures against the night sky! * Quotable Quotes: * Visnja Zeljeznjak: Steve Jobs' product pricing formula: cost of materials x 3 + 33% * Benedict Evans: We now have over 2bn iOS and Android devices on earth,
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Using EBS has lots of advantages--reliability, snapshotting, resizing--but overcoming the performance problems by using Provisioned IOPS is expensive. Swrve, an integrated marketing and A/B testing and optimization platform for mobile apps, did something clever. They are using the c3.xlarge EC2 instances, that have two 40GB SSD devices per
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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. * Senior Engineer: Mobile Services. The Emerging Technologies/Mobile Services team is looking for a proactive and hardworking software engineer to join our team.
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How would you build a chat service that needed to handle 7.5 million concurrent players, 27 million daily players, 11K messages per second, and 1 billion events per server, per day? What could generate so much traffic? A game of course. League of Legends. League of Legends is a
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Social climber: Instagram explorer scales to new heights in New York. * 11 billion: world population in 2100; 10 petabytes: Size of Netflix data warehouse on S3; $600 Billion: the loss when a trader can't type; 3.2: 0-60 mph time of probably
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Scott Hanselman gives a hilarious and insightful talk in Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler, a keynote at Velocity Santa Clara 2014. The topic of his talk is an intuitive understanding of the cloud and why it's the best thing ever. At about 6:30 into the video Scott
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This is a guest repost by Zoli Kahan from Clay.io. This is the first post in my new series 10x, where I share my experiences and how we do things at Clay.io to develop at scale with a small team. If you find these things interesting, we'
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Is the database landscape evolving or devolving? * 76 million: once more through the data breach; 2016: when a Zettabyte is transfered over the Internet in one year * Quotable Quotes: * @wattersjames: Words missing from the Oracle PaaS keynote: agile, continuous delivery, microservices, scalability, polyglot, open
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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. * Siri Operations Developer. Apple is looking for talented developers to help build the next generation internal cloud platform for Siri. This person should
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Is flat design just another pretty face or is it a huge performance hack cloaked as a UI revolution? It turns out flat design is a stone cold performance win. This and more is expertly explained by Tyler Kieft, Engineer at Instagram, in a crisp and content filled talk he