When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. -- Corinthians With this new pricing, developments will be driven by the costs. I like to optimize my apps
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Who's Hiring? * FreeAgent - Senior Platform Engineer. FreeAgent is one of the UK's largest and most successful online accounting web apps, and we're growing at an explosive rate. * Everything is sexier in the cloud. Box is hiring operations engineers and infrastructure automation engineers to
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It's time to think of the architecture and application platforms surrounding "Big Data" databases. Big Data is often centered around new database technologies mostly from the emerging NoSQL world. The main challenge that these databases solve is how to handle massive amount of data at a
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Scale the modern way / No brush / No lather / No rub-in / Big tube 35 cents - Drug stores / HighScalability: * 8868 Tweets per second during VMAs; Facebook: 250 million photos uploaded each day; Earth: 7 Billion People Strong * Potent quotables: * @kevinweil : Wow, 8868 Tweets per second last night during the #VMAs. And
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Pud of f*ckedcomany.com (FC) fame, a favorite site of the dot bomb era, and a site I absolutely loved until my company became featured, has given us a look at his backend: Why Must You Laugh At My Back End. For those whose don't remember FC&
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The world has changed. And some things that should not have been forgotten, were lost. I found these words from the Lord of the Rings echoing in my head as I listened to a fascinating presentation by Luiz André Barroso, Distinguished Engineer at Google, concerning Google's legendary past,
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You may not scale often, but when you scale, please drink HighScalability: * Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews; IBM builds 120 petabyte cluster out of 200,000 hard drives; Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours; * Potent quotables: * @kimberlycraven : To address scalability @ integration, use
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Todd had originally posted an entry on collectl here at Collectl - Performance Data Collector. Collectl collects real-time data from a large number of subsystems like buddyinfo, cpu, disk, inodes, infiniband, lustre, memory, network, nfs, processes, quadrics, slabs, sockets and tcp, all using one tool and in one consistent format.
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Cloud-based services for all things digital will either drive – or die by – bandwidth Consumers, by definition, consume. In the realm of the Internet, they consume far more than they produce. Or so it’s been in the past. Broadband connectivity across all providers have long offered asymmetric network feeds because
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Who's Hiring? * Everything is sexier in the cloud. Box is hiring operations engineers and infrastructure automation engineers to help us revolutionize the way businesses collaborate. Please apply here. * BetterWorks is hiring a PHP Software Engineer in Los Angeles to help make enterprise software be as beautiful and usable
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One of the best projects I've ever worked on was creating a large scale web site publishing system that was almost entirely static. A large team of very talented creatives made the art work, writers penned the content, and designers generated templates. All assets were controlled in a
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You may not scale often, but when you scale, please drink HighScalability: * Akamai: - 95,811 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries. * Quotably quotable quotes: * @segphault : Linus talking about the kernel's scalability. Beneficial to have one kernel used from embedded to high-end bc improvements span use cases. * suspended