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Who's Hiring? * An exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join Apple's Messaging Services team. We build the cloud systems that power some of the busiest applications in the world. You'll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of technologies, developing the server
This is a guest post by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Technical Lead at PlanForCloud. The original article was published on their site. With 29 cloud price reductions I thought it would be interesting to see how the bottom line would change compared to an article we published last year. The result is
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 1 trillion messages/day: Facebook's pub-sub; 4ms: Google Fiber last mile latency * Quotable Quotes: * @blueben: Just like general computing, Google observes that faster networks beget richer content rather than a faster user experience. #velocityconf * @unixdaemon: All of the big wins in performance
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The paper MegaPipe: A New Programming Interface for Scalable Network I/O (video, slides) hits the common theme that if you want to go faster you need a better car design, not just a better driver. So that's why the authors started with a clean-slate and designed a
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Steve Gibson on Security Now with a plausible analysis of the tech behind PRISM) * 27 billion: WhatsApp messages per day * Quotable Quotes: * Richard Feinman: If Bill Gates walks into a bar, on average, everybody in the bar is a millionaire. * @giltene: Financial Programmers get
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"It’s all a numbers game – the dirty little secret of scalable systems" Martin Thompson is a High Performance Computing Specialist with a real mission to teach programmers how to understand the innards of modern computing systems. He has many talks and classes (listed below) on caches, buffers,
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Who's Hiring? * An exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join Apple's Messaging Services team. We build the cloud systems that power some of the busiest applications in the world. You'll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of technologies, developing the server
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In the moral realm there may be 7 deadly sins, but scalability maven Sean Hull has come up with Five More Things Deadly to Scalability that when added to his earlier 5 Things That are Toxic to Scalability, make for a numerologically satisfying 10 sins again scalability: 1. Slow Disk
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ever feel like everyone has already climbed your Everest?) * Trillion Particles, 120,000 cores, and 350 TBs: Lessons Learned From a Hero I/O Run on Hopper * Quotable Quotes: * @PenLlawen: @spolsky In my time as a scalability engineer, I’ve seen plenty of cases
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It's not often you get so enthusiastic a recommendation for a paper as Sergio Bossa gives Memory Barriers: a Hardware View for Software Hackers: If you only want to read one piece about CPUs architecture, cache coherency and memory barriers, make it this one. It is a clear
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If you just want to visit Rome and not go full on Cloud Native like Netflix, then Soundslice's Adrian Holovaty in Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup provides a simple guide for helping make your first trip a good one. First, let'
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I'm not sure what I was expecting the stack GOV.UK used at launch to look like. Maybe some messenger owls and lots of cobwebs? But not so at all. So much not so I thought any organization looking at their own stack for ideas could learn something