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As a tasty pairing with Facebook And Site Failures Caused By Complex, Weakly Interacting, Layered Systems, is another excellent tale of caching gone wrong by Peter Zaitsev, in an exciting twin billing: Cache Miss Storm and More on dangers of the caches. This is fascinating case where the cause turned
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Facebook has been so reliable that when a site outage does occur it's a definite learning opportunity. Fortunately for us we can learn something because in More Details on Today's Outage, Facebook's Robert Johnson gave a pretty candid explanation of what caused a rare
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The BBC's iPlayer site averages 8 million page views a day for 1.3 million users. Technical Architect Simon Frost describes how they scaled their site in Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand: 1. Use frameworks. Frameworks support component based development which makes it convenient for team
This is an excerpt from my blogpost Working With Large Data Sets... For the past 18 months I’ve moved from working on the SMTP proxy to working on our other systems, all of which make use of the data we collect from each connection. It’s a fair amount
Too often software design patterns are overlooked by network and application delivery network architects but these patterns are often equally applicable to addressing a broad range of architectural challenges in the application delivery tier of the data center. By Lori Mac Vittie, F5 Networks The “High Scalability” blog is fast
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Ten million players a day and over fifty million players a month interact socially with friends using Playfish games on social platforms like The Facebook, MySpace, and the iPhone. Playfish was an early innovator in the fastest growing segment of the game industry: social gaming, which is the love child
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* Disqus - Scaling the Worlds Largest Django App. Interesting overview of a commenting system with 75 million comments and 250 million visitors. Lots of good details on how they partition their database, testing, continuous integration, feature switches, caching, delayed signals, and more. * Things I learnt tracking a billion events in
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This strategy is from the Large Hadron Collider project:Improvements in performance per Watt have caused CERN to no longer sign hardware support contracts longer than three years. Machines run until they die. They have a very high utilization of equipment (‘duty cycle’, 7 x 24 x 365). Replacing hardware
Why is there something rather than nothing? That's the kind of question the Large Hadron Collider in CERN is hopefully poised to answer. And what is the output of this beautiful 17-mile long, 6 billion dollar wabi-sabish proton smashing machine? Data. Great heaping torrents of Grand Canyon sized
As the Kings of scaling, when Google changes its search infrastructure over to do something completely different, it's news. In Google search index splits with MapReduce, an exclusive interview by Cade Metz with Eisar Lipkovitz, a senior director of engineering at Google, we learn a bit more of