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A big part of engineering for a quality experience is bringing in the long tail. An improbable severe failure can ruin your experience of a site, even if your average experience is quite good. That's where building for resilience comes in. Resiliency used to be outside the realm
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It's HighScalability time: * 306 items per second: Orders on Amazon * Quotable Quotes: * @hackofalltrades: When positive change is only viewed through its scalability, bad things happen. * @faizanj: Is it time for #Netflix to move to a hybrid cloud architecture similar to Zynga zCloud? * @adrianco: we try not to invest
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This topic has been ripped directly from Lambda the Ultimate's What will programming look like in 2020? post. They are having a lively discussion and if you are interested in flexing your holiday thought muscles we might have a good discussion too. Eight years is a difficult prediction
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Who's Hiring? * Flurry has built large-scale app measurement and advertising services that are used by more than 80,000 media companies and independent developers to monetize mobile and related platforms. If you're interested in joining a thriving, growing team, please check us out. * Rumble Games is
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We at HighScalability are betting the over on the whole Mayan end of the world thingy: * 200M: monthly active Twitterers; 120: number of Netflix reencodings; 1.2 Million Years: Pr0n Watched Since 2006; 100M: Google Core-Hours Awarded to Science * Quotable Quotes: * @shipilev: I've settled on saying that if
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Georeplication is one of the standard techniques for dealing when bad things--failure and latency--happen to good systems. The problem is always: how do you do that? Murat Demirbas, Associate Professor at SUNY Buffalo, has a couple of really good posts that can help: MDCC: Multi-Data Center Consistency and Making Geo-Replicated
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It's a little known fact that Santa Clause was an early queue innovator. Faced with the problem of delivering a planet full of presents in one night, Santa, in his hacker's workshop, created a Present Distribution System using thousands of region based priority present queues for
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In a hole in the Internet there lived HighScalability: * $140 Billion: trivial cost of Google fiber everywhere; 5,200 GB: data for every person on Earth; 6 hours: time it takes for a 25-GPU cluster to crack all the passwords; * Quoteable Quotes: * hnriot: Good architecture eliminates the need for prayer.
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We've long known one of the virtues of the cloud is, through the magic of services and automation, that systems can be shut or tuned down when not in use. What may be surprising is how much money can be saved. This aspect of cloudiness got a lot
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This is a guest post by Brian Bulkowski, CTO and co-founder of Aerospike, a leading clustered NoSQL database, has worked in the area of high performance commodity systems since 1989. Why flash rules for databases The economics of flash memory are staggering. If you’re not using SSD, you are
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * Built to win: 4Gb/s, 10k requests per second, 2,000 nodes, 3 datacenters, 180TB and 8.5 billion requests. Design, deploy, dismantle in 583 days to elect the President. * @CarlosTheSailor: In modern terms, feudalism was a sort of scalability solution for the