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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. * Software Developer in Test. The iOS Systems team is looking for a Quality Assurance engineer. In this role you will be expected to
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This is a guest post by Michael Schenck, SRE Staff Engineer at Tumblr. At Tumblr, blogs (or Tumblelog) are one of our most highly trafficked faces on the internet. One of the most convenient aspects of tumblelogs is their highly cacheable nature, which is fantastic because of the high views/
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: From Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud. * Quotable Quotes: * @shanselman: Wife: "How was your day?" Me: "I'm using Grunt to automate NuGet creation for AngularJS." Wife: "But will that scale?" Me: "Well played." * John
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Do you really need to roll your own? ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems: The ZooKeeper interface enables a high-performance service implementation. In addition to the wait-free property, ZooKeeper provides a per client guarantee of FIFO execution of requests and linearizability for all requests that change the ZooKeeper state. These
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This is a guest repost Przemek Sobstel, who believes that dogpile effect issue is not covered enough, especially in the PHP world. Orignal article: Preventing dogpile effect. The Dogpile effect occurs when cache expires and websites are hit by numerous requests the same time. From my own experiences working on
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Once upon a time a great Twitter melee was fought for the coveted title of Consensus Best Way to Structure Systems. The competition was between Microservices and Monolithic Apps. Flying the the logo of Microservices, from a distant cloud covered land, is the Kingdom of Netflix, whose champion was Sir
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's systems all the way down. Bugs That Call Us Home. * 1 million users in just 4 days: Yo; 30 billion: Pinterest Pins. * Quotable Quotes: * @GlennF: Amazon still dreams it is a startup, like a dog dreaming of chasing rabbits, twitching its
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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. * Software Developer in Test. The iOS Systems team is looking for a Quality Assurance engineer. In this role you will be expected to
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The folks at Stack Overflow remain incredibly open about what they are doing and why. So it’s time for another update. What has Stack Overflow been up to? The network of sites that make up StackExchange, which includes StackOverflow, is now ranked 54th for traffic in the world; they
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The one is many. Lichen composed of possibly 400 distinct species. * Quotable Quotes: * The Master Switch: Selling radio sets—the old revenue model—was a good if limited business, for ultimately few households would need more than one radio every few years. But advertising
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Have you ever wondered how bitly makes money? A URL shortener can’t be that hard to write, right? Sean O'Connor, Lead Application Developer at bitly, answers the how can bitly possibly make money question immediately in a talk he gave on bitly at the Bacon conference. Writing
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Yesterday in history: Nikola Tesla's Birthday, born in 1856. The greatest geek who ever lived? * 10Gbps: New world record broadband speed of 10 Gbps over copper. * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: There were 40m internet users when Netscape IPOed. The time's not