key-value store
The abstract for the talk given by Bob Ippolito, co-founder and CTO of Mochi Media, Inc: Building large systems on top of a traditional single-master RDBMS data storage layer is no longer good enough. This talk explores the landscape of new technologies available today to augment your data layer to
conference
The GigaOM Network today announces its second Structure conference after the runaway success of the 2008 event. The Structure 09 conference returns to San Francisco, Calif., on June 25th, 2009. Structure 09 (http://structureconf.com) is a conference designed to explore the next generations of Internet infrastructure. Over a year
Paper
Data mining and fast queries are always in that bin of hard to do things where doing something smarter can yield big results. Bloom Filters are one such do it smarter strategy, compressed bitmap indexes are another. In one application "FastBit outruns other search indexes by a factor of
poem
As any reader of this site knows we're huge huge supporters of the arts. To continue that theme here's a visionary poem by Mason Hale. Few have reached for inspiration and found their muse in the emotional maelstrom that is cloud computing, but Mason has and
In case you are interested here's the info: INFOSCALE 2009: The 4th International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems. 10-12 June 2009, Hong Kong, China. In the last few years, we have seen the proliferation of the use of heterogeneous distributed systems, ranging from simple Networks of Workstations,
Product
Update 4: Heroku versus GAE & GAE/J Update 3: Heroku has gone live!. Congratulations to the team. It's difficult right now to get a feeling for the relative cost and reliability of Heroku, but it's an impressive accomplishment and a viable option for people looking
CDN
Update 10: The Value of CDNs by Mike Axelrod of Google. Google implements a distributed content cache from within large ISPs. This allows them to serve content from the edge of the network and save bandwidth on the ISPs backbone. Update 9: Just Jump: Start using Clouds and CDNs. Bob
Performance
As traffic to cnbc.com continued to grow, we found ourselves in an all-too-familiar situation where one feels that a BIG change in how things are done was in order, the status-quo was a road to nowhere. The spending on HW, amount of space and power required to host additional
Database
Update 3: A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis: MapReduce vs. DBMS Benchmarks. Although the process to load data into and tune the execution of parallel DBMSs took much longer than the MR system, the observed performance of these DBMSs was strikingly better. Update 2: H-Store: A Next Generation
Performance
This read will provide you with information about how Netflix deals with high load on their movie rental website. It was written by Bill Scott in the fall of 2008. Read or download the PDF file here
RoR
This is the intriguing quote by Bill Venners in an interview with Twitter's Alex Payne on Twitter's heretical switch from a pure Ruby stack to a Ruby on Rails stack on the front-end and JVM/Scala on the back-end: So performance was also one of the
Example
Update 4:: Introducing Digg’s IDDB Infrastructure by Joe Stump. IDDB is a way to partition both indexes (e.g. integer sequences and unique character indexes) and actual tables across multiple storage servers (MySQL and MemcacheDB are currently supported with more to follow). Update 3:: Scaling Digg and Other Web