Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
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Every kiss begins with HighScalability: * Amazon and the secret to life: 42; 10,240 cores * Many quatloos worth of quotable quotes: * @alesroubicek : State kills scalability * @cincura_net : Wrong. *Shared* state kills scalability. * @kpshea : When I think "cloud" computing, I imagine the gaseous Star Trek blob that ate red
In Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too: Closure, Java Servlets, JavaScript, BigTable, Colossus, Quick Turnaround we glimpsed inside Google's technology stack for building Google+. Mark Knichel, an engineer on the Google+ infrastructure team, has helped us look a little deeper on how Javascript is handled
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When building a system on top of a set of wildly uncooperative and unruly computers you have knowledge problems: knowing when other nodes are dead; knowing when nodes become alive; getting information about other nodes so you can make local decisions, like knowing which node should handle a request based
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You got performance in my scalability! You got scalability in my performance! Two great tastes that taste great together: * Quotable quotes: * @jasoncbooth : Tired of the term #nosql. I would like to coin NRDS (pronounced "nerds"), standing for Non Relational Data Store. * @zenfeed : One lesson I learn about scalability,
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Someone is killing the Internet. Since you probably use the Internet everyday you might find this surprising. It almost sounds silly, and the reason is technical, but our crack team of networking experts has examined the patient and made the diagnosis. What did they find? * Diagnostic team: the Packet Pushers
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Who's Hiring? * Rocketfuel is hiring engineers to build ad-serving, bidding, modeling and data infrastructure built using a mix of proprietary and open-source technologies. Please apply here. * FreeAgent - Senior Platform Engineer. FreeAgent is one of the UK's largest and most successful online accounting web apps, and
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You're in good hands with HighScalability: * Netflix - Cassandra, AWS, 288 instances, 3.3 million writes per second. * Quotable quotes: * @bretlowery : "A #DBA walks into a #NoSQL bar, but turns and leaves because he couldn't find a table." * @AdanVali : HP to Deploy Memristor Powered
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One of the problems in building distributed systems is figuring out what the heck is going on. Usually endless streams of log files are consulted like ancients using entrails to divine the will of the Gods. To rise above these ancient practices we must rise another level of abstraction and
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Small Imrovements, makers of a hosted, lightweight feedback platform, have written an excellent article on Performance issues on GAE, and how we resolved them. They show how they trimmed most of their requests to between 300ms and 800ms, some still take 2 seconds when memcache is stale, and others clock
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You deserve a HighScalability today: * S3: 566 Billion Objects, 370K requests/sec; Titan: 38,400-processor, 20-petaflop * 1,000,000 daily users and no cache. Wooga flash game with 50K DB updates/second, Ruby backend. They hit an IO wall with MySQL at 1000 DB updates/sec. They needed more so
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Ali Sadat of MuleSoft gave interesting presentation at Saturday's Talk Cloudy to Me! event about their experiences moving Mule iON, their ESB (enterprise service bus) product to the cloud. First, a little about Talk Cloudy to Me. This event is the second one day cloud event put on
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Who's Hiring? * Grid Dynamics is hiring engineers to use the latest advances in grid and cloud computing to build scalable services. Please send your cover letter and résumé to jobs@griddynamics.com * Rocketfuel is hiring engineers to build ad-serving, bidding, modeling and data infrastructure built using a mix