Scalability
An interesting post on DataCenterKnowledge! * 1&1 Internet: 55,000 servers * Rackspace: 50,038 servers * The Planet: 48,500 servers * Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers * OVH: 40,000 servers * SBC Communications: 29,193 servers * Verizon: 25,788 servers * Time Warner Cable: 24,817 servers * SoftLayer: 21,000 servers * AT&
General Discussion
Is there any type of server technology that allows visitors to a website to become part of the server? Like with bittorrent, users share some of their bandwidth, so would this be possible with web servers where a person goes to a website, downloads and runs the software which makes
Scalability
GemFire Enterprise is in-memory distributed data management platform that pools memory (and CPU, network and optionally local disk) across multiple processes to manage application objects and behavior. With the 6.0 release, GemFire has reached a stage of maturity in its evolution. GemStone touts this version as the true '
Hadoop
Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data), Yahoo being the first. Learn how they do it and what are the challenges on DBMS2 blog, which is a blog for people who care
General Discussion
on Wiki someone posted "...For relatively small installations, pub/sub provides the opportunity for better scalability than traditional client-server, through parallel operation, message caching, tree-based or network-based routing, etc. However, as systems scale up to become datacenters with thousands of servers sharing the pub/sub infrastructure, this benefit is
Strategy
Wille Faler has created an excellent list of best practices for building scalable and high performance systems. Here's a short summary of his points: Offload the database - Avoid hitting the database, and avoid opening transactions or connections unless you absolutely need to use them. What a difference
distributed
The goal of DryadLINQ is to make distributed computing on large compute cluster simple enough for ordinary programmers. DryadLINQ combines two important pieces of Microsoft technology: the Dryad distributed execution engine and the .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ).
distributed
The Dryad Project is investigating programming models for writing parallel and distributed programs to scale from a small cluster to a large data-center.
distributed systems
Art of Distributed Part 1: Rethinking about distributed computing models I ‘m getting a lot of questions lately about the distributed computing, especially distributed computing model, and MapReduce, such as: What is MapReduce? Can MapReduce fit in all situations? How we can compares it with other technologies such as Grid
General Discussion
We are planning to be the first company to do a one million user load test and are looking for someone willing to be the first to have been subjected to such a test! Is YOUR site scalable enough? How do you KNOW? http://capcalblog.blogspot.com. Randy Hayes CapCal
key-value store
The abstract for the talk given by Bob Ippolito, co-founder and CTO of Mochi Media, Inc: Building large systems on top of a traditional single-master RDBMS data storage layer is no longer good enough. This talk explores the landscape of new technologies available today to augment your data layer to
conference
The GigaOM Network today announces its second Structure conference after the runaway success of the 2008 event. The Structure 09 conference returns to San Francisco, Calif., on June 25th, 2009. Structure 09 (http://structureconf.com) is a conference designed to explore the next generations of Internet infrastructure. Over a year