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Perhaps it is because the whole world feels as if it’s riding on the edge of a jagged knife that the idea of resilience is becoming a dominant theme across so many domains. Resilience in beings first developed when cells evolved a way of maintaining inner order through homeostatic
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We're back and it's HighScalability Time: 1. 1B Tweets Every 2.5 Days: Twitter. 1 billion transactions/day: Salesforce. 2. Storing 700 terabytes of data into a single gram of DNA. Downside, reading is very slow. And any data might conflict with the messages aliens have
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This is a guest post by Sachin Sinha, Founder of Iqlect and developer of BangDB. The goal for the paper is to provide the performances data for following embedded databases under various scenarios for random operations such as write and read. The data is presented in graphical manner to make
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This is a guest post by Jon Vlachogiannis. Jon is the founder and CTO of BugSense. BugSense, is an error-reporting and quality metrics service that tracks thousand of apps every day. When mobile apps crash, BugSense helps developers pinpoint and fix the problem. The startup delivers first-class service to its
Other than StackOverflow, PlentyOfFish is perhaps the most spectacular example of scale-up architectures working for what your average sane person would consider a large system. It doesn't hurt that it's also a sexy story. Update 5: PlentyOfFish Update - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images
With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do. Growing at over 30% a month has not
This is one of my favorite posts for a couple of reasons. I think it gives a lot of useful information in an interesting space. And Kyle Vogt was just a real pleasure to talk to. He was very helpful and forthcoming, which makes the whole experience better for everyone.
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This is an all time favorite post. Even though I've seen this video a hundred times I still can't help but laugh... This is so funny I laughed until I cried! Definitely NSFW. OMG it's hilarious, but it's also not a bad
This is the post that got me kicked off my original shared hosting service and prompted the move to SquareSpace. I couldn't figure out why so many people were reading this article. But they kept on coming. The site went down and I was told to vamoose. It
All in all this is still my favorite post and I still think it's an accurate vision of a future. Not everyone agrees, but I guess we'll see... "But it is not complicated. [There's] just a lot of it." -- Richard Feynman