Example
In How to launch in a month and scale to a million users, Joseph Perla, Former VP of Technology and founding team of Turntable.fm, shares techniques he used to build and quickly scale his startups. The post is very well written and a must read. Here are the essentials:
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I'd walk a mile for HighScalability: * 1/12th the World Population on Facebook in One Day; 1.8 ZettaBytes of data in 2011; 1 Billion Foursquare Checkins; 2 million on Spotify; 1 Million on GitHub; $1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on EC2; Patent trolls cost .5 trillion
There’s some amount of debate whether Facebook really crossed over the one trillion page view per month threshold. While one report says it did, another respected firm says it did not; that its monthly page views are a mere 467 billion per month. In the big scheme of things,
Strategy
Sean Hull with two helpful posts: 5 Things That are Toxic to Scalability: 1. Object Relational Mappers. Create complex queries that hard to optimize and tweak. 2. Synchronous, Serial, Coupled or Locking Processes. Locks are like stop signs, traffic circles keep the traffic flowing. Row level locking is better than
joke
Jeremy Raines tweeted a link to this cartoon my new filing technique is unstoppable, showing how scotch tape can be used to create a new super-database. Very funny in a Dilbert sort of way, but definitely not NSFW... For more on Twisted Tuesday, you may enjoy: * Hilarious Video: Relational Database
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Product
This is a guest post by Greg Luck Founder and CTO, Ehcache Terracotta Inc. Note: this article contains a bit too much of a product pitch, but the points are still generally valid and useful. The legendary Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be
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Between love and madness lies HighScalability: * Google now 10x better: MapReduce sorts 1 petabyte of data using 8000 computers in 33 minutes; 1 Billion on Social Networks; Tumblr at 10 Billion Posts; Twitter at 100 Million Users; Testing at Google Scale: 1800 builds, 120 million test suites, 60 million tests
Paper
In It's Time for Low Latency Stephen Rumble et al. explore the idea that it's time to rearchitect our stack to live in the modern era of low-latency datacenter instead of high-latency WANs. The implications for program architectures will be revolutionary. Luiz André Barroso, Distinguished Engineer
conference
Which of the many conferences should you attend? I get this question a lot, so I compiled a list. The list isn't life, it's not a top 10, and it won't say if a conference is naughty or nice, but they are conferences I
Strategy
Jared Rosoff concisely, effectively, entertainingly, and convincingly gives an 8 minute MongoDB tutorial on scaling MongoDB at Scale Out Camp. The ideas aren't just limited to MongoDB, they work for most any database: Optimize your queries; Know your working set size; Tune your file system; Choose the right
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Scale the modern way / No brush / No lather / No rub-in / Big tube 35 cents - Drug stores / HighScalability: * GAE Serves 1.5 Billion Pages a Day * Potent quotables: * @kendallmiller : The code changes I'm most proud of are the ones few people will ever see - like I just