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Update: as of the end of Q2 2011, Akamai had 95,811 servers deployed globally. Akamai is the CDN to the stars. It claims to deliver between 15 and 30 percent of all Web traffic, with major customers like Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and the US military. Traditionally quite secretive, we
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Sean Hall with some really good MySQL advice: 1. Tune those queries. Biggest bang for your buck. Enable the slow query log and watch it. Once you've found a heavy resource intensive query, optimize it! Tune what receives real-world traffic. 2. Employ Master-Master Replication. Immediately have a read-only
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Amazon has a very will written account of their 8/8/2011 downtime: Summary of the Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and Amazon RDS Service Event in the EU West Region. Power failed, backup generators failed to kick in, there weren't enough resources for EBS volumes to recover, API
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Submitted for your scaling pleasure, you may not scale often, but when you scale, please drink us: * Quotably quotable quotes: * @mardix : There is no single point of truth in #NoSQL . #Consistency is no longer global, it's relative to the one accessing it. #Scalability * @kekline : RT @CurtMonash: "...from
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LevelDB is an exciting new entrant into the pantheon of embedded databases, notable both for its pedigree, being authored by the makers of the now mythical Google MapReduce and BigTable products, and for its emphasis on efficient disk based random access using log-structured-merge (LSM) trees. The plan is to keep
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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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This is a guest post by Johann Schleier-Smith, CTO & co-founder, Tagged. Five snapshots on how Tagged scaled to more than 1,000 servers Since 2004, Tagged has grown from a tiny social experiment to one of the largest social networks, delivering five billion pages per month to many millions
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Submitted for your beginning of the end of summer scaling pleasure: * Google Uses About 900,000 Servers; eBay deploys 100TB of flash storage * The cloud isn't for closers. Another gaming startup pulls back from the cloud by Derrick Harris. Digital Chocolate is following the Zynga strategy of moving
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Jim Starkey, founder of NuoDB, in this thread on the Cloud Computing group, delivers a masterful post on why he thinks the relational model is the best overall compromise amongst the different options, why NewSQL can free itself from the limitations of legacy SQL architectures, and how this creates a
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A conjunction of a few new technologies may trigger disruptive changes in the future. This observation was prompted by a talk Steve Perlman gave at the Columbia Engineering School: Benjamin Button, Cloud Everything and Why Shannon's Law Isn't. In it he covers a set of technologies
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This is a guest post by Marcel Panse and Sander Nagtegaal from Peecho. Although architecture descriptions are an interesting read, the problems that start-ups face are hardly ever addressed. We would like to change that, so here is our architecture story. Introducing a start-up The Amsterdam-based company Peecho offers print-as-a-service.
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Submitted for your end of July scaling pleasure: * YouTube: 3 billion videos viewed a day; 48 hours of footage uploaded every minute. 64 core Tilera chip. * Google wants to be your CDN. They figure the only way to make the web faster...is to host it. Page Speed Service -