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Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, Oh, What a HighScalability it is: * $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms; 9 days: It took AOL 9 years to hit 1 million users. Facebook 9 months. Draw Something 9 days; ~362 sq ft solar array: powers 1 sq ft of
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Here's a really good article in the Communications of the ACM on reducing network packet processing overhead by redesigning the network stack: Revisiting Network I/O APIs: The Netmap Framework by Luigi Rizzo. As commodity networking performance increases operating systems need to keep up or all those CPUs
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This is a guest post by Siddharth Anand, a senior member of LinkedIn's Distributed Data Systems team. Over the past 3 years, I've had the good fortune to work with many emerging NoSQL products in the context of supporting the needs of a high-traffic, customer facing
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HighScalability is What We Do: * 454,400: Number of Amazon servers; 45PB: Facebook Data Warehouse, grows exponentially; 5 Atoms: Ultimate limit of thermodynamics; YouTube: 4 billion views/day, 60 hours of video uploaded every minute, revenue doubled in 2010 * Quotable quotes: * @adrianco: Walmart labs run large single region Cassandra clusters
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This is a guest post by Steve Newman, co-founder of Writely (Google Docs), tech lead on the Paxos-based synchronous replication in Megastore, and founder of cloud service provider Scalyr.com. Microsoft’s Azure service suffered a widely publicized outage on February 28th / 29th. Microsoft recently published an excellent postmortem. For
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Who's Hiring? * Nokia's Cloud Computing, Operations and Development Group is hiring! Check out: http://devops.nokia.com. CCOD designs, builds, manages and scales Nokia’s cloud computing. * ConnecTV is a start up looking for a DevOps & System Administration Leader to help build a revolutionary new
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Likewise the current belief that, in the case of artificial machines the very large and the very small are equally feasible and lasting is a manifest error. Thus, for example, a small obelisk or column or other solid figure can certainly be laid down or set up without danger of
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You've Got Questions We've Got HighScalability: * 1 trillion bits per second: IBM’s Holey Optochip; Scale of the Universe: 2; Infinite wireless: Vortex radio waves; 105,000 Servers: Akamai. * Quotable quotes: * @CodingFabian: IaaS = Ops without Hardware; PaaS = Devs without Ops; SaaS = Business without Devs * @audaciouslife: While
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The argument for a massively multicore future is now familiar: while clock speeds have leveled off, device density is increasing, so the future is cheap chips with hundreds and thousands of cores. That’s the inexorable logic behind our multicore future. The unsolved question that lurks deep in the dark
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Please don't squeeze the HighScalability: * Quotable quotes: * @karmafile: "Scalability" is a much more evil word than we make it out to be * @ostaquet: More hardware won't solve #SQL resp. time issues; proper indexing does. * @datachick: All computing technology is the rearrangement of data. Data
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Computing pioneer Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler, searched for a concrete way to create an intuitive understanding of just how fast is a nanosecond, a billionth of a second, which was the speed of their new computer circuits. As an illustration she settled on the length of wire that
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Limelight says 95% of Mobile Video Views Take Place in First 90 Days and 88.8 percent of views take place in the first 30 days. Since a lot of people are working with video, which is expensive to store and serve, the implication: there's little need to