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It's HighScalability Time: * 4 Trillion Objects: Windows Azure Storage * Quotable Quotes: * @benjchristensen: “What if we could make the data dense and cheap instead of sparse and expensive?” James Gosling @liquidrinc * @sinetpd360: People trying new things and sharing is what helps create scalability. Jim Rickabaugh #siis2012 * @rbranson: This h1.
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GraphChi uses a Parallel Sliding Windows method which can: process a graph with mutable edge values efficiently from disk, with only a small number of non-sequential disk accesses, while supporting the asynchronous model of computation. The result is graphs with billions of edges can be processed on just a single
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Are all instances created equal? Perhaps because under multi-tenancy multiple virtual machines run on the same physical host, not all applications will run equally well on every instance. In that case it makes sense to measure and move to a better performing instance. That's the interesting idea from
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It's HighScalability Time (Good luck today): * A Friday the 13th Postmorterama: * James Hamilton with some high powered perspective on the report for the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. Apparently they haven't heard of the blameless post-mortem. Lots of interesting stuff, but this is a potentially disaster saving general
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This is the third guest post (part 1, part 2) of a series by Greg Lindahl, CTO of blekko, the spam free search engine. Previously, Greg was Founder and Distinguished Engineer at PathScale, at which he was the architect of the InfiniPath low-latency InfiniBand HCA, used to build tightly-coupled supercomputing
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It's HighScalability Time (with 33% more goodness for the same NoPrice): * 2.5 terabits per second : Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams; One Trillion Tons : Carbon Pollution; 1 Megawatt: more power due to leap second; 100,000 terabytes: information storage capability of one gram of human stool; 2.8B social
Database
This is a guest post by Douglas Wilson, EMEA Field Application Engineer at Raima, based on insights from biulding their Raima Database Manager. Scalability and Hardware Scalability is the ability to maintain performance as demands on the system increase, by adding further resources. Normally those resources will be in the
After poking around the Google Compute Engine (GCE) documentation I had some trouble creating a mental model of how GCE works. Is it like AWS, GAE, Rackspace, just what is it? After watching Google I/O 2012 - Introducing Google Compute Engine and Google Compute Engine -- Technical Details, it
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Judging from the tweet flow, Velocity looked like a riotous good time. In this video on the main themes at Velocity, after a little microphone enhanced violence, John Allspaw and Steve Souders identify resilience and automation as two of the big ideas behind building a faster and stronger web. John
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Neil Conway from Berkeley CS is giving an advanced level talk at a meetup today in San Francisco on a new paper: Logic and Lattices for Distributed Programming - extending set logic to support CRDT-style lattices. The description of the meetup is probably the clearest introduction to the paper: In
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