jobs
Ashleigh Anderson from Zynga let me know that they have an opening for a Systems Engineer working on some new games they are developing. Given the state of the job market I thought it worth posting. Here are more details... Zynga is looking for a strong server-side Systems Engineer to
Incremental deployment. Manual/automated hybrid deployment strategy we use at Forward for our critical, high availability distributed systems.
hot links
* Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud. The only independent platform most of us will have access to capable of hosting planet-scale applications is the Ambient Cloud. It forms a sort of digital potluck where everyone contributes memory, network, and other compute resources from
data-grid
Current disk based RDBMS can run out of steam when processing large data. Can these problems be solved by migrating from a disk based RDBMS to an IMDB? Any limitations? To find out, I tested one of each from the two leading vendors who together hold 70% of the market
benchmark
How many times have we all run across a situation where the performance tests on a piece of software pass with flying colors on the test systems only to see the software exhibit poor performance characteristics when the software is deployed in production? Read More Here...
ambient
"But it is not complicated. [There's] just a lot of it." -- Richard Feynman on how the immense variety of the world arises from simple rules. Contents: 1. Have We Reached the End of Scaling? 2. Applications Become Black Boxes Using Markets to Scale and Control
This post draws some of the common patterns behind the various NOSQL alternatives, and how they address the database scalability challenge. Read the full story here
One of the core assumption behind many of today’s databases is that disks are reliable. In other words, your data is “safe” if it is stored on a disk, and indeed most database solutions rely heavily on that assumption. Is it a valid assumption? Read the full story here
search
While Kngine just announce some improvement and new features, I would like you take you in small trip in Snippet Search research project at Kngine. What is Kngine? Kngine is startup company working in Searching technologies, We in Kngine aims to organize the human beings Systematic Knowledge and Experiences and
I try to keep this blog targeted and on topic. So even though I may be thankful for the song of the tinniest sparrow at sunrise, I'll save you from all that. It's hard to tie scalability and the giving of thanks together, especially as it
nosql
Brian Aker gave this 10 minute lightning talk on NoSQL at the Nov 2009 OpenSQLCamp in Portland, Oregon. It's incredibly funny, probably because there's a lot of truth to what he's saying. Here are the slides and here are the notes. Found though #nosql.
* Eventual Consistency by Example by Sergio Bossa. Attempts to clear up some misconceptions about eventual consitency as discussed in Amazon's Dynamo paper. * Boston Big Data Summit keynote outline by Curt Monash. Interesting topics: Big Data and the cloud actually have relatively little to do with each other and