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A HighScalability a day keeps the fail whale away.: * 46 million turkeys eaten at Thanksgiving; Pinterest 421 million pageviews * Quotable quotes: * @al3xandr3 : scalability demands decoupling * @startupandrew : "Yesterday I did some digestive system scalability testing" -- in reference to eating 140 chicken nuggets * Peter Wayner : While the crazy dreamers
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Teams from Princeton and CMU are working together to solve one of the most difficult problems in the repertoire: scalable geo-distributed data stores. Major companies like Google and Facebook have been working on multiple datacenter database functionality for some time, but there's still a general lack of available
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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
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The term "cloud portability" is often considered a synonym for "Cloud API portability," which implies a series of misconceptions. If we break away from dogma, we can find that what we really looking for in cloud portability is Application portability between clouds which can be a
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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Srinath Perera has put together a strong list of architecture patterns based on three meta patterns: distribution, caching, and asynchronous processing. He contends these three are the primal patterns and the following patterns are but different combinations: 1. LB (Load Balancers) + Shared nothing Units. Units that do not share anything
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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