High Scalability

Simpler, Cheaper, Faster: Playtomic's Move from .NET to Node and Heroku

This is a guest post by Ben Lowry, CEO of Playtomic. Playtomic is a game analytics service implemented in about 8000 mobile, web and downloadable games played by approximately 20 million people daily. Here's a good summary quote by Ben Lowry on Hacker News: Just over 20,000,

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 12, 2012

It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * @rodos: With so much manure in the room of #BigData the must be a pony in here somewhere! * @adron: #ricon2012 OH "it isn't cloud, nosql or whatever, it's distributed systems... That is the change!" Smartest thing stated

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RAMCube: Exploiting Network Proximity for RAM-Based Key-Value Store

RAMCube is a datacenter oriented design for RAM-based key-value store that supports thousands or tens of thousands of servers to offer up to hundreds of terabytes of RAM storage. Here's the PDF Paper describing the system and here's a video of the presentation given at HotCloud.

Strategy

Antirez: You Need to Think in Terms of Organizing Your Data for Fetching

Salvatore Sanfilippo wrote a response to Michel Martens' An Open Minded Reader. There's nothing in the post or response that's controversial. I was just struck at what a clear explication the conversation was on all the effort that goes into optimizing read paths. We optimize

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How UltraDNS Handles Hundreds of Thousands of Zones and Tens of Millions of Records

This is a guest post by Jeffrey Damick, Principal Software Engineer for Neustar. Jeffrey has overseen the software architecture for UltraDNS for last two and half years as it went through substantial revitalization. UltraDNS is one the top the DNS providers, serving many top-level domains (TLDs) as well as second-level

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5, 2012

It's HighScalability Time: * 30 Million: Lady Gaga Twitter followers; 1 Billion: active Facebook users; * Quotable Quotes: * @mappingbabel: Oracle exec says "we're not competing with Amazon for Netflix, we're competing with Amazon for Boeing," * @CompSciFact: "Most software looks more like a whirlpool

Strategy

LinkedIn Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut and Up to 20x Faster

Update: More background by Ikai Lan, who worked on the mobile server team at LinkedIn, says some facts were left out: the app made "a cross data center request, guys. Running on single-threaded Rails servers (every request blocked the entire process), running Mongrel, leaking memory like a sieve."

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An Epic TripAdvisor Update: Why Not Run on the Cloud? The Grand Experiment.

This is a guest post by Shawn Hsiao, Luke Massa, and Victor Luu. Shawn runs TripAdvisor’s Technical Operations team, Luke and Victor interned on his team this past summer. This post is introduced by Andy Gelfond, TripAdvisor’s head of engineering. It's been a little over a

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28, 2012

It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * @dbasch: The world is full of "scalability engineers" who would die from an orgasm if their software ever saw 10,000 requests in a day. * @mtnygard: “Scaling issues are always expressed as a queue backing up somewhere.” —@moonpolysoft #strangeloop * @rbranson: If

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WordPress.com Serves 70,000 req/sec and over 15 Gbit/sec of Traffic using NGINX

This is a guest post by Barry Abrahamson, Chief Systems Wrangler at Automattic, and Nginx's Coufounder Andrew Alexeev. WordPress.com serves more than 33 million sites attracting over 339 million people and 3.4 billion pages each month. Since April 2008, WordPress.com has experienced about 4.4

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Simpler, Cheaper, Faster: Playtomic's Move from .NET to Node and Heroku

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 12, 2012

RAMCube: Exploiting Network Proximity for RAM-Based Key-Value Store

Antirez: You Need to Think in Terms of Organizing Your Data for Fetching

How UltraDNS Handles Hundreds of Thousands of Zones and Tens of Millions of Records

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5, 2012

LinkedIn Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut and Up to 20x Faster

An Epic TripAdvisor Update: Why Not Run on the Cloud? The Grand Experiment.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28, 2012

WordPress.com Serves 70,000 req/sec and over 15 Gbit/sec of Traffic using NGINX