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What will the version of the Internet that follows us to the stars look like? Yes, people are really thinking seriously about this sort of thing. Specifically the InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG). Ansible-like faster-than-light communication it isn't. There's no magical warp drive. Nor is
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How does the Wayback Machine work? Now with over 400 billion webpages indexed, allowing the Internet to be browsed all the way back to 1996, it's an even more compelling question. I've looked several times but I've never found a really good answer. Here&
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cross Section of an Undersea Cable. It's industrial art. The parts. The story. * 400,000,000,000: Wayback Machine pages indexed; 100 billion: Google searches per month; 10 million: Snapchat monthly user growth. * Quotable Quotes: * @duncanjw: The Great Rewrite - many apps
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So how do you knit multiple datacenters and many thousands of phones and other clients into a single cooperating system? Usually you don't. It's too hard. We see nascent attempts in services like Firebase and Parse. SwiftCloud, as described in SwiftCloud: Fault-Tolerant Geo-Replication Integrated all the
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After Google cut prices on their Google Cloud Platform Amazon quickly followed with their own price cuts. Even more interesting is what the future holds for pricing. The near future looks great. After that? We'll see. Adrian Cockcroft highlights that Google thinks prices should follow Moore’s law,
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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. * Enterprise Software Engineer. Apple's Emerging Technology Services group provides a Java based SOA platform for various applications to interact with each
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This is a guest repost by Venkatesh CM at Architecture Issues Scaling Web Applications. I will cover architecture issues that show up while scaling and performance tuning large scale web application in this blog. Lets start by defining few terms to create common understanding and vocabulary. Later on I will
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: NASA captures Guatemala volcano erupting from space * 40,000 exabytes: from now until 2020, the digital universe will about double every two years; $650,000: amount raised by the MaydayPAC in one week. * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: Masayoshi Son: $20m initial investment in Alibaba, current
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Our last article on Disqus: How Disqus Went Realtime With 165K Messages Per Second And Less Than .2 Seconds Latency, was a little out of date, but the folks at Disqus have been busy implementing, not talking, so we don't know a lot about what they are doing
This a guest post by Rajkumar Iyer, a Member of Technical Staff at Aerospike. About a year ago, Aerospike embarked upon a quest to increase in-memory database performance - 1 Million TPS on a single inexpensive commodity server. NoSQL has the reputation of speed, and we saw great benefit from
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Google's new POWER8 server motherboard * 1 trillion: number of scents your nose can smell; millions of square feet: sprawling new server farms * Quotable Quotes: * Gideon Lewis-Kraus: As the engineer and writer Alex Payne put it, these startups represent “the field offices of
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Famous computer scientist John Backus, he's the B in BNF(Backus-Naur form) and the creator of Fortran, gave a Turing Award Lecture titled Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs, that has layed out a division in programming