Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
Strategy
Jeremy Edberg gave a talk on Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion–Pitfalls and Lessons and one of the issues they had was that they: Did not account for increased latency after moving to EC2. In the datacenter they had submillisecond access between machines so it was possible
Example
This is a guest post written by Victor Trac, Cloud Architect at Bazaarvoice. Bazaarvoice is a company that people interact with on a regular basis but have probably never heard of. If you read customer reviews on sites like bestbuy.com, nike.com, or walmart.com, you are using Bazaarvoice
humor
Love this little example of the human condition from John Kellden via Ilya Grigorik. This happens so often to me shopping at Costco or making lane changes on the highway or picking stocks. Sometimes it's just never the right line and trying to make it better only makes
History
The story of driving the golden spike to symbolize the completion of the transcontinental railroad is famous in the US. What is not so well known is the story of how it also foreshadowed changes to come as an early version of both the Internet and the Internet of Things.
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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. * Quality Assurance Engineer. The iOS Systems team is looking for a Quality Assurance engineer. In this role
Example
This is a guest post by Mark Travis, Founder of InfiniSQL. InfiniSQL is the specific "Infinitely Scalable RDBMS" to which the title refers. It is free software, and instructions for getting, building, running and testing it are available in the guide. Benchmarking shows that an InfiniSQL cluster can
hot links
Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out. * 26,496: number of cores in Amazon's supercomputer; 128 billion: WDC's huge web graph publicly available; 400 million: Snapchat more photos than Facebook per day;
DevOps
In 1999 Dan Kegel issued a big hairy audacious challenge to web servers: It's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously, don't you think? After all, the web is a big place now. This became known as the C10K problem. Engineers solved the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out. * Quotable Quotes: * fidotron: It feels like we've gone in one big circle, where first we move the DB on to a separate machine for performance, yet now
Strategy
Jeff Dean gave a talk at SFBay ACM and at about 3 minutes in he goes over how Google runs jobs on computers, which is different than how most shops distribute workloads. It’s common for machines to be dedicated to one service, say run a database, run a cache,
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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. You will primarily work with the domain team including project managers and engineers, as
AskHighScalability
This question was asked over email and I thought a larger audience might want to take a whack at it. With a business associate, I am trying to develop a financial software that handles financial reports of listed companies. We managed to create this database with all the data necessary