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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (resource consumption scales sub-linearly with population; economic output scales super-linearly) * 4PB: Ancestry.com's House of Us * Quotable Quotes: * @kellabyte: XBOX Live scaling up from 15,000 servers to 300,000 servers. That's some scale right there. * @giuseppegurgone: [...] that could work
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When you have a large population of servers you have both the opportunity and the incentive to perform interesting studies. Authors from Google and the University of California in Optimizing Google’s Warehouse Scale Computers: The NUMA Experience conducted such a study, taking a look at how jobs run on
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If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will. -- Steve Jobs America as the New World has a long history of inspiring Utopian communities. Early experiments were famously religious. But there have been many others as new waves of thought have inspired people to organize and try something different.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Scaling the Mighty Redwood photograph by Michael Nichols for NatGEO) * ~20K : Netflix AWS instances; 100 million hours per minute: Youtube video upload; * Quotable Quotes: * @sw17ch: Computer Science is thinking about thinking. Software Engineering is thinking about how to avoid thinking. * @neha: I am starting
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Distributed transactions are costly because they use agreement protocols. Calvin says, surprisingly, that using a deterministic database allows you to avoid the use of agreement protocols. The approach is to use a deterministic transaction layer that does all the hard work before acquiring locks and the beginning of transaction execution.
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What data structure is more sacred than the link list? If we get rid of it what silly interview questions would we use instead? But not using linked-lists is exactly what Aater Suleman recommends in Should you ever use Linked-Lists? In The Secret To 10 Million Concurrent Connections one of
It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of money. A coincidence? You be the judge. Just what is Yahoo buying? The business acumen of the deal is
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Earth sized solar flare, some more flair) * Google I/O to world: Just try to keep up with us. You can't. But go ahead and try. Nah na na na nah... * 17 billion: Google Cloud Messaging messages per day with 60ms latency;
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Looks like an interesting take on "a completely asynchronous, low-latency transaction management protocol, in line with the fully distributed NoSQL architecture." Warp: Multi-Key Transactions for Key-Value Stores overview: Implementing ACID transactions has been a longstanding challenge for NoSQL systems. Because these systems are based on a sharded architecture,
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If you are stuck drowning in too much data and too many options and are dazzled by all the possibilities of code, here's a helpful bit of advice from Airbnb's rags to riches origin story: it's okay to do things that don’t scale.
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