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Who's Hiring? * Are you looking for good people? Fun and Informative Events * The DevOps PaaS Infusion Meetup NYC - Taking Mission-Critical Apps to the Cloud. You’ll hear real world use cases from Microsoft, Aditi, Cisco, GigaSpaces, and C24. Register here: http://bit.ly/IpgpaN. * O'Reilly
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It remains that, from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. -- Isaac Newton The practice of IT reminds me a lot of the practice of science before Isaac Newton. Aristotelianism was dead, but there was nothing to replace it. Then Newton came
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable quotes: * Richard Feynman: Suppose that little things behave very differently than anything big * @orgnet: "Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think" -- John Allen Paulos, Mathematician * @bcarlso: just throw out the word "scalability". That'll bring em
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Martin Thompson, a high-performance technology geek, has written an awesome post, Fun with my-Channels Nirvana and Azul Zing. In it Martin shows the process and techniques he used to take an existing messaging product, written in Java, and increase throughput by 32X and reduce latency by 20X. The article is
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The EuroSys 2012 system conference has an excellent live blog summary of their talks for: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 (thanks Henry at the Paper Trail blog). Summaries for each of the accepted papers are here. One of the more interesting papers from a NoSQL perspective was Cache Craftiness
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable quotes: * The unbearable cost of the cloud? @marcoarment: My experiment with Amazon CloudSearch was going very well until I imported half of subscribers' bookmarks and saw it would cost $10k/month. * @JBossMike: Serious question: Do the Node.js hipsters enjoy not knowing WTF
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If you are interested in future foward OS designs then you might find Akaros worth a look. It's an operating system designed for many-core architectures and large-scale SMP systems, with the goals of: * Providing better support for parallel and high-performance applications * Scaling the operating system to a large
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This is a guest post (part 2, part 3) by Greg Lindahl, CTO of blekko, the spam free search engine that had over 3.5 million unique visitors in March. Greg Lindahl was Founder and Distinguished Engineer at PathScale, at which he was the architect of the InfiniPath low-latency InfiniBand
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It's HighScalability Time: * 100 Billion PVs/Week: Plenty of Fish; 695k TPS: Node.js & VoltDB; 131ms: Response from EC2 EU * Quotable quotes: * Markus Frind: Scaling is not very fun these days. * Mike Krieger: Scaling is like replacing all components on a car while driving it at 100
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This is guest post by Michael DeHaan (@laserllama), a software developer and architect, on Ansible, a simple deployment, model-driven configuration management, and command execution framework. I owe High Scalability a great deal of credit for the idea behind my latest software project. I was reading about how an older tool
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The adding jitter strategy was one of the most commented on techniques from 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes on HackerNews. Probably because it’s one of the emergent phenomena that you really can’t predict and is shocking when you see it in real life. Here’