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Hey, it's HighScalability time: With tensegrity landing balls we'll be the coolest aliens to ever land on Mars. * 6-8Tbps: Apple’s live video stream; $65B: crowdfunding's contribution to the global economy * Quotable Quotes: * @bodil: I asked @richhickey and he said "a transducer is
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Alex Bordei, product manager for Bigstep’s Full Metal Cloud, in Scaling NoSQL databases: 5 tips for increasing performance, shares a nice set of lessons he's learned about how NoSQL databases scale: * Never assume linearity in scaling. Hardware prices grow exponentially as the specs increase, but not all
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Update: Instagram Improved Their App's Performance. Here's How. When you find your mobile application that ran fine in the US is slow in other countries, how do you fix it? That’s a problem Facebook talks about in a couple of enlightening videos from the @scale
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Galactic bolt-hole or supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 21 million suns? * Quotable Quotes: * @debuggist: Chief takeaway from #velocityconf for me: failure happens so monitor for the ones that are important albeit in systems or culture & fix them * @Carnage4Life: The real tech
That's the eye popping prediction from Krste Asanović, University of California, Berkeley, in a presentation he gave at FAST '14 titled: FireBox: A Hardware Building Block for 2020 Warehouse-Scale Computers (pdf). FireFox looks system like this: Trends in Warehouse Scale Computers (WSC)s: * Small scale services are
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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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Three baseball umpires were sitting around a bar, talking about how they make calls on each pitch: First umpire: Some are balls and some are strikes, and I call them as they are. Second umpire: Some are balls and some are strikes, and I call them as I see '
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Each dot in this image is an entire galaxy containing billions of stars. What's in there? * Quotable Quotes: * mseepgood: Or "another language that's becoming popular, Node.js" * Joe Moreno: What good are billions of cycles of CPU power
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Yao Yue has worked on Twitter’s Cache team since 2010. She recently gave a really great talk: Scaling Redis at Twitter. It’s about Redis of course, but it's not just about Redis. Yao has worked at Twitter for a few years. She's seen some
Hey, it's HighScalability time: Telephone Tower, late 1880s, 5000 telephone lines. Switching FTW. * 1.3 trillion: row table in SQL server; 100,000: galaxies in the Laniakea supercluster. * Quotable Quotes: * @pbailis: OLAP: data at rest, queries in motion. Stream processing: data in motion, queries at rest. PSoup: data
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James T. Kirk's infamous gambit in Starfleet's impossible to win Kobayashi Maru test was to redefine the problem into a challenge he could beat. Interestingly, an article titled Shifts In Algorithm Design, says something like the same gambit is the modern method of solving algorithmic problems.
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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. The iOS Systems team is building out a Site Reliability organization. In this role you will be expected to work