Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
Paper
If you stayed up all night watching the life reaffirming Curiosity landing on Mars, then this paper, High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases, has nothing to do with that at all, but it is an excellent look at how to use optimistic MVCC schemes to reduce lock
A very shy team of ex-Facebookers have created MemSQL, what they claim is the world's fastest database, and I'll be interviewing them on Tuesday. Are there any questions you would like to ask the MemSQL team? If so, please contact me or make a comment
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * Ross Tur: the tricks you learned to make things big are not the same tricks you can apply to make things infinite. * @gclaramunt: Son, I'm getting old, but let me tell you a secret: programming is hard, and high scalability and
Strategy
In the wake of the recent Amazon problems Ryan Lackey offers some practical first responder cloud survival advice: If you're a large site (particularly a PaaS) on AWS and care about availability, you need to have spare capacity in your region (using Reserve Instances, like Netflix does) to
AskHighScalability
Next week I'm going to have the pleasure of interviewing Gabriel Weinberg, founder of rebel search engine DuckDuckGo. Is there anything you would like to know about DuckDuckGo that I can ask Gabe? Please contact me or comment on this thread with your deepest desires.
Example
In update to Prismatic Architecture - Using Machine Learning on Social Networks to Figure Out What You Should Read on the Web, Jason Wolfe, even in the face of deadening fatigue from long nights spent getting their iPhone app out, has gallantly agreed to talk a little more about Primatic'
Example
This post on Prismatic’s Architecture is adapted from an email conversation with Prismatic programmer Jason Wolfe. What should you read on the web today? Any thoroughly modern person must solve this dilemma every day, usually using some occult process to divine what’s important in their many feeds: Twitter,
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It's HighScalability Time: * Almost 1 Billion Users: Facebook; 30,000 connections across 94 locations: the Olympics Network; 2.5 quintillion: bytes of data created each day; 80K QPS: MemSQL. * In some early results Zencoder found EC2 was faster than GCE in their video transcoding tests, saying Google needs
With Amazon announcing new High I/O 2TB SSD instances the age of SSD has almost arrived. I say almost because the $27K a year price tag for the hi1.4xlarge on demand instance type is outside the budget of many. Yet even at the full on demand rate the
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Who's Hiring? * Are you a seasoned systems admin? ground(ctrl) is looking for you! http://groundctrl.com/#!/jobs/senior-systems-administrator * Torbit is hiring! Care about performance? Care about making the internet faster and better? At Torbit we use lots of Golang, Node.js, JavaScript and PHP to
AskHighScalability
This question was sent in by Val, who asking for a little help in creating the next big thing. Any ideas? I'm planning to run my own, first startup website and have been surfing the webs for relevant info to plan the technology I will use for it
CDN
CDNs (content delivery networks) are the secret shadow super powers behind the web and Dan Rayburn at streamingmedia.com is the go to investigative reporter for quality information on CDNs. Every year Dan has a Content Delivery Summit on all things CDN and those videos are now available. Dan also