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Scaling the World Cup - How Gambify runs a massive mobile betting app with a team of 2

This is a guest post by Elizabeth Osterloh and Tobias Wilke of cloudControl. Startups face very different issues than big companies when they build software. Larger companies develop projects over much longer time frames and often have entire IT-departments to support them in creating customized architecture. It’s an entirely

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 4th, 2014

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Beauty is everywhere. Household dust magnified 22 million times. * Let's play a game of guess the company. They have: >100 billion searches per month; > 60 trillion known URLs; > 50 billion facts in knowledge graph; > 100 hours of video

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Why does data need to have sex?

Data needs the ability to combine with other data in new ways to reach maximum value. So data needs to have the equivalent of sex. That's why I used sex in the title of my previous article, Data Doesn't Need To Be Free, But It Does

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Data Doesn't Need to Be Free, But it Does Need to Have Sex

How do we pay for the services we want to create and use? That is the question. Systems like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and all the other services you love are not cheap to build at scale. Grow now and figure out your business model later as the VC funding disappears,

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The Secret of Scaling: You Can't Linearly Scale Effort with Capacity

The title is a paraphrase of something Raymond Blum, who leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers at Google, said in his talk How Google Backs Up the Internet. I thought it a powerful enough idea that it should be pulled out on its own: Mr. Blum explained common backup

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Performance at Scale: SSDs, Silver Bullets, and Serialization

This is a guest post by Aaron Sullivan, Director & Principal Engineer at Rackspace. We all love a silver bullet. Over the last few years, if I were to split the outcomes that I see with Rackspace customers who start using SSDs, the majority of the outcomes fall under two

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Migrating to XtraDB Cluster in EC2 at PagerDuty

This is a guest post by Doug Barth, a software generalist who has currently found himself doing operations work at PagerDuty. Prior to joining PagerDuty, he worked for Signal in Chicago and Orbitz, an online travel company. A little over six months ago, PagerDuty switched its production MySQL database to

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Gone Fishin' 2014

Well, not exactly Fishin', but I'll be on a month long vacation starting today. I won't be posting new content, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know. If you've ever wanted to write an article for HighScalability this would

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Scaling the World Cup - How Gambify runs a massive mobile betting app with a team of 2

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 4th, 2014

Why does data need to have sex?

Data Doesn't Need to Be Free, But it Does Need to Have Sex

The Secret of Scaling: You Can't Linearly Scale Effort with Capacity

Sponsored Post: Apple, Chartbeat, Monitis, Netflix, Salesforce, Blizzard Entertainment, Cloudant, CopperEgg, Logentries, Wargaming.net, PagerDuty, Gengo, ScaleOut Software, Couchbase, MongoDB, BlueStripe, AiScaler, Aerospike, LogicMonitor, AppDynamic

Performance at Scale: SSDs, Silver Bullets, and Serialization

Migrating to XtraDB Cluster in EC2 at PagerDuty

Sponsored Post: Apple, Netflix, Salesforce, Blizzard Entertainment, Cloudant, CopperEgg, Logentries, Wargaming.net, PagerDuty, HelloSign, CrowdStrike, Gengo, ScaleOut Software, Couchbase, MongoDB, BlueStripe, AiScaler, Aerospike, LogicMonitor, AppDyn

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Gone Fishin' 2014