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Update: Larry Page wants a Google 2.0 that will build cities and airports, report says TL;DR: There’s a lot of unused space in North America. Yet cities like San Francisco are becoming ever more expensive because of a bubble created by high tech jobs that seemingly can
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In your best Carl Sagan voice...Billions and Billions of Habitable Planets. * Quotable Quotes: * @Kurt_Vonnegut: Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. * @neil_conway: "The paucity of innovation in calculating join
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This is a guest post by Itamar Haber, Chief Developers Advocate, Redis Labs. While catching up with the world the other day, I read through the High Scalability guest post by Anshu and Rajkumar's from Aerospike (great job btw). I really enjoyed the entire piece and was impressed
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This is a guest repost by Steve Robbins, Chief Architect at MixRadio. At MixRadio, we offer a free music streaming service that learns from listening habits to deliver people a personalised radio station, at the single touch of a button. MixRadio marries simplicity with an incredible level of personalization, for
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Exterminate! 1,024 small, mobile, three-legged machines that can move and communicate using infrared laser beams. * 1.6 billion: facts in Google's Knowledge Vault built by bots; 100: lightening strikes every second * Quotable Quotes: * @stevendborrelli: There's a common feeling here
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This a guest post by Anshu Prateek, Tech Lead, DevOps at Aerospike and Rajkumar Iyer, Member of the Technical Staff at Aerospike. In our first post we busted the myth that cloud != high performance and outlined the steps to 1 Million TPS (100% reads in RAM) on 1 Amazon EC2
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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 Software Engineer -iOS Systems. Do you love building highly scalable, distributed web applications? Does the idea of a fast-paced environment make your
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This a guest post by Anshu Prateek, Tech Lead, DevOps at Aerospike and Rajkumar Iyer, Member of the Technical Staff at Aerospike. Cloud infrastructure services like Amazon EC2 have proven their worth with wild success. The ease of scaling up resources, spinning them up as and when needed and paying
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Somehow this seems quite appropriate. (via John Bredehoft) * 75 acres: Pizza eaten in US daily; 270TB: Backblaze storage pod; 14nm: Intel extends Moore's Law * Quotable Quotes * discreteevent: The dream of reuse has made a mess of many systems. * David Crawley: Don'
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This Case Study is a guest post written by Antoni Orfin, Co-Founder and Software Architect at Octivi. In the post I'll show you the way we developed quite simple architecture based on HAProxy, PHP, Redis and MySQL that seamlessly handles approx 1 billion requests every week. There’ll
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Physicists reveal the scaling behaviour of exotic giant molecules. * 5 billion: Transistors Intel manufactures each second; 396M: WeChat active users * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: Every hour or so, Apple ships phones with something around 2x more transistors than were in all the PCs on earth
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What data structure does your database use? It's not something the typical database user spends much time pondering. Since data structure is destiny, what data structure your database uses is a key point to consider in your selection process. We know CouchDB uses a modified B+ tree. We&