Over the years I've read a lot of research papers looking for better ways of doing things. Sometimes I find ideas I can use, but more often than not I come up empty. The problem is there are very few good papers. And by good I mean: can
Strategy
At Monday's Cloud Computing Meetup, Paco Nathan gave an excellent Getting Started on Hadoop talk (slides). I found one of Paco's strategies particularly interesting: consider when a service starts charging in cost calculations. Depending on your use case it may be cheaper to go with a
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And by hot I also mean temperature. Summer has arrived. It's sizzling here in Silicon Valley. Thank you air conditioning! * Scale the web by appointing a Crawler Czar? Tom Foremski has the idea that Google should open up their index so sites wouldn't have to endure
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DynaTrace in Top 10 Performance Problems taken from Zappos, Monster, Thomson and Co, has provided a useful compilation of performance problems, with potential solutions, that they've found while working with their clients. 1. Too Many Database Calls - too many database query per request/transaction. 2. Synchronized to
Who's Hiring? * VoltDB is Hiring * Get Your High Scalability Fix at Digg VoltDB Field/Community Engineer VoltDB is attracting more and more users every day. If you have a strong technical background in SQL and Linux, are experienced with production database deployments, and have a passion for customers
Product
This is a follow up article by Cory Isaacson to the first article on DbShards, Product: dbShards - Share Nothing. Shard Everything, describing some of the details about how DbShards works on the inside. The dbShards architecture is a true “shared nothing” implementation of Database Sharding. The high-level view of
CDN
Like many other media content providers, libraries and museums are increasingly moving their content onto the Web. While the move itself is no easy process (with digitization, web development, and training costs), being able to successfully deliver content to a wide audience is an ongoing concern, particularly for large libraries.
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A firestorm of accusations circled around recently saying that Cassandra, the elected-by-major-adopters emperor of the NoSQL movement, has no clothes. It was said Twitter was dumping Cassandra; Reddit outages were linked to Cassandra; and even Facebook, Cassandra's cradle of birth, was said to have abandoned Cassandra. Shouts of
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* Facebook serves 3 billion Like buttons a day says VentureBeat. * CloudScaling reports: Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010? It looks like GAE for PaaS and an EC2 clone for IaaS. * Tweets of gold: * alandipert: scalability is a drug * seldo: Scalability lesson #23: if any part of your system
AWS
This is a guest post by Frédéric Faure (architect at Ysance) on the differences between using a cloud infrastructure and building your own. Frédéric was kind enough to translate the original French version of this article into English. I’ve been noticing many questions about the differences inherent in choosing
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Professor Lance Fortnow, in his blog post Drowning in Data, says complexity has taught him this lesson: When storage is expensive, it is cheaper to recompute what you've already computed. And that's the world we now live in: Storage is pretty cheap but data acquisition and