nosql
We've asked What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?. We've asked 101 Questions To Ask When Considering A NoSQL Database. We've even had a webinar What Should I Do? Choosing SQL, NoSQL or Both for Scalable Web Applications. Now we get to
Submitted for your scaling pleasure: * Google's code base receives 20+ code changes per minute and 50% of the files change every month. Learn how they test all that. Graph analysis? Of course. * Quatrains of quotably quotable quotes: * mehals: Reading the AmazonStorage Wiki and Game of Thrones. Lannister took
nosql
You need answers, I know, but all I have here are some questions to consider when thinking about which database to use. These are taken from my webinar What Should I Do? Choosing SQL, NoSQL or Both for Scalable Web Applications. It's a companion article to What The
humor
Jumping around the social mediasphere, it's not uncommon to feel the heat generated in praise of a favorite this or that over all the clearly inferior alternatives. Whilst human nature may never cool, I think Old Will had some insight worth considering the next time a flame threatens
Example
Sometimes I get article proposals and then there's no follow up. Though these TripAdvisor data points are from 2010, I thought them worth sharing: Our site serves in excess of 100M dynamically generated page view a day (all media and static content goes through CDN), and we do
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AWS
This is a guest post by Frédéric Faure (architect at Ysance), you can follow him on twitter. Urbandive is an immersive view service launched by the French YellowPages which allows you to travel in cities in France thanks to a 360° view. Urbandive focuses on providing high definition pictures and
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Submitted for your scaling pleasure: * Achievements: * Every day, Amazon Web Services adds enough new capacity to support all of Amazon.com’s global infrastructure through the company’s first 5 years, when it was $2.7 billion annual revenue. From Cloud Computing Is Driving Infrastructure Innovation by James Hamilton. Where&
A bit over a month ago Amazon experienced its infamous AWS outage in the US East Region. As a cloud evangelist, I was intrigued by the history of the outage as it occurred. There were great posts during and after the outage from those who went down. But more interestingly
GAE
With the Google IO Developer Conference completed there are dozens and dozens of information packed videos now available. While you won't get any of the nifty free swag the attendees rake in, it's great of Google to make these videos available so quickly after the conference.
Strategy
There has been a lot of speculation over how Apple's iCloud would work. With the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynotes having just completed, we finally learned the truth. We can handle it. They made some interesting and cost effective architecture choices that preserved the value of their devices
administration
Lately I've been reading more cases were different people have started to realize the limitations of the NoSQL promise to database scalability. Note the references below: * Why does Quora use MySQL as the data store instead of NoSQLs such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB etc? * Why did Diaspora abandon