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This is a guest post derived from an email conversation with Russell Sullivan, a computer architect and creator of Alchemy Database, A Hybrid RDBMS/NOSQL-Datastore. Russell (AKA Jak Sprats) has been pondering, considering, and implementing distributed databases for many years. In a recent email conversation he shared 44 of the
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This is not your father's HighScalability: * 13,000 times the world’s GDP: Cost of the Death Star * Quotable quotes: * @chrissalzman: Scalability is the enemy of right now. * @resatsch: I like our IT team: "We used Redis before Youporn did it" * @virtual_bill: Mixing flash and
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This is a guest post by Alberto Lopez Toledo, PHD, CTO of Pixable, and Julio Viera, VP of Engineering at Pixable. Pixable aggregates photos from across your different social networks and finds the best ones so you never miss an important moment. That means currently processing the metadata of more
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After the filesystem and simple library packages like dbm, Berkeley DB was the original luxury embedded database widely used by applications as their core database engine. NoSQL before NoSQL was cool. The hidden secret making complex applications sing. If you want to dispense with all the network overhead of a
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HighScalability Tested, Cyborg Approved: * Google's DNS: 70 billion requests a day; Superexponential: the rate of tech progress; Akka: 48 cores / 20 million messages a second; 1 minute: intervals for health; Santa Tracker: 1.6 Million Requests per Second; 70x: MySQL cluster performance improvement * Quotable Quotes * @joeweinman: Lightbody at
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Eric Pickup from Youporn.com posted on a news group that Youporn is now 100% Redis based and will soon be revealing more about their architecture at the ConFoo conference. Some stunning, but not surprising numbers were revealed: * 100 million page views per day * A cluster of Redis slaves are
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Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra shared a bit about their stack on Quora: * Python + heavily-modified Django at the application layer * Tornado and (very selectively) node.js as web-servers. * Memcached and membase / redis for object- and logical-caching, respectively. * RabbitMQ as a message queue. * Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish for static-delivery and load-balancing. * Persistent
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Who's Hiring? * Anybody interested in helping manage a 100+ Linux server deployment? Next Big Sound is a an analytics company for the music industry and is looking someone to help them scale. * Red 5 Studios. Wanted: DBAs and Programmers interested in MySQL scalability and replication. If interested, please
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With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do. Growing at over 30% a month has not
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HighScalability Tested, Mother Approved: * 12,233TPS: Twitter @ Super Bowl; 11 Million Slices: Dominos @ Super Bowl; 500K requests per second: S3; * The great mobile money drain. Mobile: high resource costs, low revenue. Mobile traffic on Plenty of Fish is growing at 3% a month, rising to 3 Billion pageviews a month,
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I'm only here for the HighScalability: * 762 billion: objects stored on S3; $1B/Quarter: Google spend on servers; 100 Petabytes: Storage for Facebook's photos and videos. * Quotable Quotes: * @knorth2: #IPO filing says #Facebook is "dependent on our ability to maintain and scale our technical infrastructure&