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This is a repost of part 1 of an interview I did for the Boundary blog. Boundary: What is Facebook’s secret sauce for managing what’s got to be the biggest Big Data project, if you will, on the Web? Hoff: From several presentations we’ve learned what Facebook
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings) * Two Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests / Second: S3; 1.4TB/s: Titan supercomputer has world’s fastest storage; four billion hours: Netflix streaming in last 3 months; $1.2B: Google's Q1 infrastructure spend * Quotable Quotes: * Google: We&
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Tachyon (github) is interesting new filesystem brought to by the folks at the UC Berkeley AMP Lab: Tachyon is a fault tolerant distributed file system enabling reliable file sharing at memory-speed across cluster frameworks, such as Spark and MapReduce.It offers up to 300 times higher throughput than HDFS, by
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Who's Hiring? * LogicMonitor is looking for a Front End developer to have a huge impact, be valued, realize their dreams, and help us realize ours. We are looking for someone to own the code that delivers the design and usability of LogicMonitor's enterprise SaaS application(s)
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Pinterest has been riding an exponential growth curve, doubling every month and half. They’ve gone from 0 to 10s of billions of page views a month in two years, from 2 founders and one engineer to over 40 engineers, from one little MySQL server to 180 Web Engines, 240
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings) * 877,000 TPS: Erlang and VoltDB. * Quotable Quotes: * Hendrik Volkmer: Complexity + Scale => Reduced Reliability + Increased Chance of catastrophic failures * @TheRealHirsty: This coffee could use some "scalability" * @billcurtis_: Angular.js with Magento + S3 json file caching = wicked scalability
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In Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps Mike Maelzer paints a wonderful picture of how Avocado, a mobile app for connecting couples, evolved to handle 30x traffic within a few weeks. If you are just getting started then this is a great example to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Dr. Who Scaling Up the Shard click for cool animated gif) * 50 sextillion: # of earth-like planets in universe; 100,000: stars * Quotable Quotes: * @petdance: "I wish I had enough money to run Oracle instead of Postgres." "Why do you want to
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How do you layer a programmable Internet of smart things on top of the web? That's the question addressed by Dominique Guinard in his ambitious dissertation: A Web of Things Application Architecture - Integrating the Real-World (slides). With the continued siloing of content, perhaps we can keep our
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Who's Hiring? * LogicMonitor is looking for a Front End developer to have a huge impact, be valued, realize their dreams, and help us realize ours. We are looking for someone to own the code that delivers the design and usability of LogicMonitor's enterprise SaaS application(s)
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Khan Academy is a non profit company started by Salman Khan with the Big Hairy Audacious Goal of providing a free, world class education to anyone, anywhere, anytime. That’s a lot of knowledge. Having long been inspired and captivated by the Khan Academy, I was really curious to know
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings) * 44.6 billion - Tumblr posts; 300 Gb/s - DDoS DNS amplification attacks; 100 million - Eventbrite tickets processed. * Quotable Quotes: * @tveskov: Alan Kay: “The past 30 years have been completely mundane. It’s all been scaling (of old