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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,
Hadoop
This is a guest post by Doug Judd, original creator of Hypertable and the CEO of Hypertable, Inc. Hypertable delivers 2X better throughput in most tests -- HBase fails 41 and 167 billion record insert tests, overwhelmed by garbage collection -- Both systems deliver similar results for random read uniform
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99designs is a crowdsourced design contest marketplace based out of Melbourne Australia. The idea is that if you have a design you need created you create a contest and designers compete to give you the best design within your budget. If you are a medium sized commerce site this is
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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&
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“Data is everywhere, never be at a single location. Not scalable, not maintainable.” –Alex Szalay While Galileo played life and death doctrinal games over the mysteries revealed by the telescope, another revolution went unnoticed, the microscope gave up mystery after mystery and nobody yet understood how subversive would be what
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One of the benefits of web applications is that they are generally transported via TCP, which is a connection-oriented protocol designed to assure delivery. TCP has a variety of native mechanisms through which delivery issues can be addressed – from window sizes to selective acks to idle time specification to ramp
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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