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Hey, it's HighScalability time: LifeExplorer Cells in 3D * Quotable Quotes: * The Master Switch: History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single
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Counting at scale in a distributed environment is surprisingly hard. And it's a subject we've covered before in various ways: Big Data Counting: How to count a billion distinct objects using only 1.5KB of Memory, How to update video views count effectively?, Numbers Everyone Should
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Chris Dixon unearthed a great quote from Douglas Adams on the nature of technological adoption that unsurprisingly hits the mark in our ever changing and evolving world: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the
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This is a guest repost by Rotem Hermon, former Chief Architect for serendip.me, on the architecture and scaling considerations behind making a startup music service. serendip.me is a social music service that helps people discover great music shared by their friends, and also introduces them to their “music
The way this game is played is you read a few statements on some hot topics below. If you agree with a statement then you “take it”; if you disagree then you “leave it.” And if you are so moved please write a convincing comment as to why. Got it?
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Twitter valiantly survived an Oscar DDoS attack by non-state actors. * Several Billion: Apple iMessages per Day along with 40 billion notifications and 15 to 20 million FaceTime calls. Take that WhatsApp. Their architecture? Hey, this is Apple, only the Shadow knows. * 200 bit quantum
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Guest post by Asya Kamsky, Principal Solutions Architect at MongoDB. This post outlines ten things you need to know for operating MongoDB at scale based on my experience working with MongoDB customers and open source users: 1. MongoDB requires DevOps, too. MongoDB is a database. Like any other data store,
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Who's Hiring? * Apple is hiring for multiple positions. Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. * C++ Senior Developer and Architect- Maps. The Maps Team is looking for a senior developer and architect
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This is a guest post by Patrick Eaton, Software Engineer and Distributed Systems Architect at Stackdriver. Stackdriver provides intelligent monitoring-as-a-service for cloud hosted applications. Behind this easy-to-use service is a large distributed system for collecting and storing metrics and events, monitoring and alerting on them, analyzing them, and serving up
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (full) * Quotable Quotes: * @ML_Hipster: A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion. * OH: Network effects don't happen
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Rick Reed in an upcoming talk in March titled That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the next level at WhatsApp reveals some eye popping WhatsApp stats: What has hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores, hundreds of terabytes of RAM, and hopes to serve
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Hey, it's HighScalability time (a particularly bountiful week): The Telephone Wires of Manhattan in 1887 (full) * $19 billion: you know what it is; $46 billion: cost of Sochi Olympics; 400 gigabytes: data transmitted during the Sochi opening ceremony; 26.9 million: Stack Overflow community monthly visitors; 93 million: