High Scalability

How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds Latency

Here's an Update On Disqus: It's Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python. How do you add realtime functionality to a web scale application? That's what Adam Hitchcock, a Software Engineer at Disqus talks about in an excellent talk: Making DISQUS Realtime (slides). Disqus

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 25th, 2014

Hey, it's HighScalability time: New World Record BASE jumping from World's Tallest Building. #crazy * 30 billion: total Pinterest pins; 500,000,000: What'sApp users (700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day); 1 billion: Facebook active users on phones and tablets. * Quotable

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Here's a 1300 Year Old Solution to Resilience - Rebuild, Rebuild, Rebuild

How is it possible that a wooden Shinto shrine built in the 7th century is still standing? The answer depends on how you answer this philosophical head scratcher: With nearly every cell in your body continually being replaced, are you still the same person? The Ise Grand Shrine has been

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This is why Microsoft won. And why they lost.

My favorite kind of histories are those told from an insider's perspective. The story of Richard the Lionheart is full of great battles and dynastic intrigue. The story of one of his soldiers, not so much. Yet the soldiers' story, as someone who has experienced the real

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 18th, 2014

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Scaling to the top of "Bun Mountain" in Hong Kong * 44 trillion gigabytes: size of the digital universe by 2020; 6 Times: we have six times more "stuff" than the generation before us. * Quotable Quotes: * Facebook: Our warehouse stores upwards

How do you even do anything without using EBS?

In a recent thread on Hacker News discussing recent AWS price changes, seldo mentioned they use AWS for business, they just never use EBS on AWS. A good question was asked: How do you even do anything without using EBS? Amazon certainly makes using EBS the easiest path. And EBS

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 11th, 2014

Hey, it's HighScalability time: DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches which have as much compute power as a Commodore 64 * 40,000: # of people it takes to colonize a star system; 600,000: servers vulnerable to heartbleed * Quotable Quotes: * @laurencetratt: High frequency traders paid $300M to reduce

Paper

Paper: Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions - Scale Linearly to 100 Servers

We are not yet at the End of History for database theory as Peter Bailis and the Database Group at UC Berkeley continue to prove with a great companion blog post to their new paper: Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions. I like the approach of pairing a blog post

Microservices - Not a free lunch!

This is a guest post by Benjamin Wootton, CTO of Contino, a London based consultancy specialising in applying DevOps and Continuous Delivery to software delivery projects. Microservices are a style of software architecture that involves delivering systems as a set of very small, granular, independent collaborating services. Though they aren&

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Google Finds: Centralized Control, Distributed Data Architectures Work Better than Fully Decentralized Architectures

For years a war has been fought in the software architecture trenches between the ideal of decentralized services and the power and practicality of centralized services. Centralized architectures, at least at the management and control plane level, are winning. And Google not only agrees, they are enthusiastic adopters of this

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How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds Latency

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 25th, 2014

Here's a 1300 Year Old Solution to Resilience - Rebuild, Rebuild, Rebuild

This is why Microsoft won. And why they lost.

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 18th, 2014

Sponsored Post: Apple, HelloSign, CrowdStrike, Gengo, Layer, The Factory, Airseed, ScaleOut Software, Couchbase, Tokutek, MongoDB, BlueStripe, AiScaler, Aerospike, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

How do you even do anything without using EBS?

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 11th, 2014

Paper: Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions - Scale Linearly to 100 Servers

Microservices - Not a free lunch!

Google Finds: Centralized Control, Distributed Data Architectures Work Better than Fully Decentralized Architectures