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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Gorgeous image from Scientific American's Your Brain by the Numbers * Quotable Quotes: * @jezhumble: Google does everything off trunk despite 10k devs across 40 offices. * @KentLangley: "in 2016. When it goes online, the SKA is expected to produce 700 terabytes of data
If you were going to design a next generation Internet at the physical layer that routes around the current Internet, what would it look like? What should it do? How should it work? Who should own it? How should it be paid for? How would you access it? It has
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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. * Sr. Security Software Developer. We are looking for an excellent programmer who's done extensive security
Strategy
Stardog makes a commercial graph database that is a great example of what can be accomplished with a scale-up strategy on BigIron. In a recent article StarDog described how they made their new 2.1 release insanely scalable, improving query scalability by about 3 orders of magnitude and it can
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: From the stunning Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation * $7 trillion: US spend on patrolling oil sea-lanes; 82 billion: files served by MaxCDN in 5 months * Quotable Quotes: * @StephenFleming: "Money doesn’t solve scaling problems, but the actual solutions to scaling
Product
I don't know about you, but when I first learned about Redis my initial thought was wow, why hasn't anyone done this before? My next thought was why put this functionality in a separate process? Why not just embed it in your own server code and
Example
Michael Laing, a Systems Architect at NYTimes, gave this great decription of their use of RabbitMQ and their overall architecture on the RabbitMQ mailing list. The closing sentiment marks this as definitely an architecture to learn from: Although it may seem complex, Fabrik has simple components and is mostly principles
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Run pneumatic tubes alongside optical fiber cables and we unite the digital and material worlds. * 1 billion: searches on DuckDuckGo in 2013 * Quotable Quotes: * pg: We [Hacker News] currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on
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Adrian Cockcroft on the future of Cloud, Open Source, SaaS and the End of Enterprise Computing: Most big enterprise companies are actively working on their AWS rollout now. Most of them are also trying to get an in-house cloud to work, with varying amounts of success, but even the best
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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. * Sr Software Engineer. The iOS Systems Team is looking for a Software Engineer to work on operations,
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This article is from an interview with Zuhaib Siddique, a production engineer at HipChat, makers of group chat and IM for teams. HipChat started in an unusual space, one you might not think would have much promise, enterprise group messaging, but as we are learning there is gold in them
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Hey, it's HighScalability time, can you handle the truth? Should software architectures include parasites? They increase diversity and complexity in the food web. * 10 Million: classic hockey stick growth pattern for GitHub repositories * Quotable Quotes: * Seymour Cray: A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into IO-bound