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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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In a great article, Amazon S3 Performance Tips & Tricks, Doug Grismore, Director of Storage Operations for AWS, has outed the secret arcana normally reserved for Premium Developer Support customers on how to really use S3: * Size matters. Workloads with less than 50-100 total requests per second don't
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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
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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