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You might have consistency problems if you have: multiple datastores in multiple datacenters, without distributed transactions, and with the ability to alternately execute out of each datacenter; syncing protocols that can fail or sync stale data; distributed clients that cache data and then write old back to the central store;
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A recent study showed that over 92 percent of executives from leading retailers are focusing their marketing efforts on Facebook and subsequent applications. Furthermore, over 71 percent of users have confirmed they are more likely to make a purchase after “liking” a brand they find online. (source ) Sears Architect Tomer
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Submitted for your reading pleasure, no foolin'... * Quotable Quotes: * @zateriosystems: thinking about scalability?, are you OK to double your capacity in one week?, a startup should be ready...ready to jump. * @sklacy: Maybe what I should have said is "Design for scalability, deploy without it." * @MikeHale: Scalability
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A surprising amount of heat and light was generated by the whole Micrsoft vs MySpace discussion. Why people feel so passionate about this I'm not quite sure, but fortunately for us, in the best sense of the web, it generated an amazing number of insightful comments and observations.
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Who's Hiring? * OPOWER motivates millions to become more energy efficient, and we're hiring! * deviantART is looking for Infrastructure and Database Operations Engineers! * Kabam is looking for a Quantitative Analyst and a Senior Data Engineer to join the Business Intelligence group at our social gaming startup. Fun
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With the Chapultepec aqueduct, also named the great aqueduct, the Aztecs built a novel uninterruptible water supply for providing fresh water to Tenochtitlan, their fast growing jewel of a capital city. A section of the aqueduct is still around today: It's fun to think about how even 600
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Robert Scoble wrote a fascinating case study, MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft, where he reports MySpace insiders blame the Microsoft stack on why they lost the great social network race to Facebook. Does anyone know if this is true?
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In Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now At 95 Million Page Views A Month, a commenter expressed surprise about Stack Overflow's backup strategy: Backup is to disk for fast retrieval and to tape for historical archiving. The comment was: Really? People still do this? I know some organizations
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Facebook did it again. They've built another system capable of doing something useful with ginormous streams of realtime data. Last time we saw Facebook release their New Real-Time Messaging System: HBase To Store 135+ Billion Messages A Month. This time it's a realtime analytics system handling
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Who's Hiring? * deviantART is looking for Infrastructure and Database Operations Engineers! * Kabam is looking for a Quantitative Analyst and a Senior Data Engineer to join the Business Intelligence group at our social gaming startup. Fun and Informative Events * Interested in CouchDB Training? The CouchDB Training World Tour starts
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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this day of wind and rain... * The cloud is falling. Or at least shared networked storage as Reddit has a couple of long periods of downtime. Good write up at Why reddit was down for 6 of the last 24 hours. Upshot: Reddit is
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Are long VM instance spin-up times in the cloud costing you money? That's the question that immediately came to mind when James Urquhart, in an interview at the Stata Conference, made this thought provoking comment: the faster you can get the resources into the hands of the people