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It's HighScalability Time: * LHC compute jobs: use 1.5 CPU millennia every 3 days; Obama helps load test Reddit: 4.3 million page views * Quotable Quotes: * @secastro: Want to see nearly a terabyte of memory? * @DZone: Apache Projects are the Justice League of Scalability * Apple And Google Might
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This is a guest post by Peter Offringa, VP of engineering at Zoosk. Zoosk is a 50 million member romantic social network. Our members get the most rewarding experience from Zoosk when they can interact in real-time. After all, a future relationship is potentially at the other end of every
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It's HighScalability Time: * 500 TB/day: Facebook data * Quotable Quotes: * Tumblr mobocracy: This is what migrating a billion cache objects into a new cache pool looks like * #hoti it is possible to build all to all wdm networks where there is a wavelength per core. * A Generation Lost
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Urs Hoelzle, infrastructure guru and SVP at Google, made a really interesting statement about the economics of scale in the datacenter: We’ve shown that when you run a large application in the datacenter, like Gmail, you can, compared to a small organization running their own email server, you can
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Who's Hiring? * New Relic is looking for a Java Scalability Engineer in Portland, OR. Ready to scale a web service with more incoming bits/second than Twitter? http://newrelic.com/about/jobs * Palantir Technologies is hiring a Software Engineer to develop our technologies for exploring huge information sets
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This is a guest post by Ron Pressler, the founder and CEO of Parallel Universe, a Y Combinator company building advanced middleware for real-time applications. A little over a month ago, we open-sourced a new in-memory data grid called Galaxy. An in-memory data grid, or IMDG, is a clustered data
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * @rbranson: So turns out the EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes are not total shit. This injects the man with a few weeks of runway. * @markzohar: It is amazing to witness the efficiency & scalability of algorithms. Given the choice, build your tech company on
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In MemSQL Architecture we learned one of the core strategies MemSQL uses to achieve their need for speed is lock-free skip lists. Skip lists are used to efficiently handle range queries. Making the skip-lists lock-free helps eliminate contention and make writes fast. If this all sounds a little pie-in-the-sky then
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This is an interview with MemSQL cofounder’s Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov, in which they try to answer critics by going into more depth about their technology. MemSQL ruffled a few feathers with their claim of being the fastest database in the world. According to their benchmarks MemSQL can
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We just released a social section to our iOS app several days ago and we are already facing scaling issues with the users' news feeds. We're basically using a Fan-out-on-write (push) model for the users' news feeds (posts of people and topics they follow) and we&
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It's HighScalability Time: * TNW: On an average day, out of 30 trillion URLs on the web, Google crawls 20B web pages and now serves 100B searches every month. * Quotable Quotes: * @tapbot_paul: The 2 computers on the Curiosity rover are RAD750 based, they are approximately 1/10th the
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Who's Hiring? * Palantir Technologies is hiring a Software Engineer to develop our technologies for exploring huge information sets and presenting complex information to end-users. * Are you a seasoned systems admin? ground(ctrl) is looking for you! http://groundctrl.com/#!/jobs/senior-systems-administrator Fun and Informative Events * Percona announces MySQL