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If you are a normal human being and find the Paxos protocol confusing, then this paper, Paxos Made Moderately Complex, is a great find. Robbert van Renesse from Cornell University has written a clear and well written paper with excellent explanations. The Abstract: For anybody who has ever tried to
Strategy
A consequence of Service Oriented Architectures is the burning need to provide services at scale. The architecture that has evolved to satisfy these requirements is a little known technique called the Cell Architecture. A Cell Architecture is based on the idea that massive scale requires parallelization and parallelization requires components
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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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Snooze is an open-source, scalable, autonomic, and energy-efficient virtual machine (VM) management framework for private clouds. Similarly to other VM management frameworks such as Nimbus, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus, and OpenStack it allows to build compute infrastructures from virtualized resources. Particularly, once installed and configured users can submit and control the life-cycle
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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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