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The InfoQ article Finding the Right Data Solution for Your Application in the Data Storage Haystack makes a series of concrete recommendations for a user who wants to find the right storage solution for his application. Few years back, there was a time SQL RDBMS were solution for almost all
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Small Imrovements, makers of a hosted, lightweight feedback platform, have written an excellent article on Performance issues on GAE, and how we resolved them. They show how they trimmed most of their requests to between 300ms and 800ms, some still take 2 seconds when memcache is stale, and others clock
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You deserve a HighScalability today: * S3: 566 Billion Objects, 370K requests/sec; Titan: 38,400-processor, 20-petaflop * 1,000,000 daily users and no cache. Wooga flash game with 50K DB updates/second, Ruby backend. They hit an IO wall with MySQL at 1000 DB updates/sec. They needed more so
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Ali Sadat of MuleSoft gave interesting presentation at Saturday's Talk Cloudy to Me! event about their experiences moving Mule iON, their ESB (enterprise service bus) product to the cloud. First, a little about Talk Cloudy to Me. This event is the second one day cloud event put on
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Who's Hiring? * Grid Dynamics is hiring engineers to use the latest advances in grid and cloud computing to build scalable services. Please send your cover letter and résumé to jobs@griddynamics.com * Rocketfuel is hiring engineers to build ad-serving, bidding, modeling and data infrastructure built using a mix
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We've had a few articles on the StackOverlflow Architecture and Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month. Time for another update. This time from a podcast. Every week or so Jeff, Joel and guests sit around and converse. The result is a
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Who's Hiring? * Grid Dynamics is hiring engineers to use the latest advances in grid and cloud computing to build scalable services. Please send your cover letter and résumé to jobs@griddynamics.com * Rocketfuel is hiring engineers to build ad-serving, bidding, modeling and data infrastructure built using a mix
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You deserve a HighScalability today: * Tumblr > Wikipedia * Potent quotables: * @tokutek : Yelp generates close to 400 GB of compressed logs per day according to @petersirota of Amazon #Strataconf #BigData. More at From Under the Desk to the Cloud * @LHK_ITRG : Massive scalability: 80,000 users on a single AppSense server.
Well, not exactly Fishin', I'll be on vacation starting today and I'll be back in mid October. I won't be posting, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know. If you've ever wanted to write an article for
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And now for something completely different, brought to you by David Ackley and Daniel Cannon in their playfully thought provoking paper: Pursue robust indefinite scalability, wherein they try to take a fresh look at neural networks, starting from scratch. What is this strange thing called indefinite scalability? They sound like
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In the post Using memcache might be free, but it's costing you money with instance pricing! Use instance caches if possible made on the Google App Engine group, Santiago Lema brings up an oldie but a goody of an idea that was once used to improve performance, but
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Who's Hiring? * Grid Dynamics is hiring engineers to use the latest advances in grid and cloud computing to build scalable services. Please send your cover letter and résumé to jobs@griddynamics.com * Rocketfuel is hiring engineers to build ad-serving, bidding, modeling and data infrastructure built using a mix