CDN
Update 10: The Value of CDNs by Mike Axelrod of Google. Google implements a distributed content cache from within large ISPs. This allows them to serve content from the edge of the network and save bandwidth on the ISPs backbone. Update 9: Just Jump: Start using Clouds and CDNs. Bob
Memcached
Memcached is generally treated as a black box. But what if you really need to know what's in there? Not for runtime purposes, but for optimization and capacity planning? Read more on Evan Weaver, a software developer working for Twitter (a contributor for Rails core and Mongrel).
Performance
As traffic to cnbc.com continued to grow, we found ourselves in an all-too-familiar situation where one feels that a BIG change in how things are done was in order, the status-quo was a road to nowhere. The spending on HW, amount of space and power required to host additional
Database
Update 3: A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis: MapReduce vs. DBMS Benchmarks. Although the process to load data into and tune the execution of parallel DBMSs took much longer than the MR system, the observed performance of these DBMSs was strikingly better. Update 2: H-Store: A Next Generation
General Discussion
Does anyone know of any articles or papers that discuss the nuts and bolts of how web analytics is implemented at organizations with large volumes of web traffic and a critcal business need to analyze that data - e.g. places like Amazon.com, eBay, and Google? Just as a
General Discussion
Hi, Some time ago , martin fowler bloged about how HTTP cache headers can be very effectively used in web site design. http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/SegmentationByFreshness.html How actively HTTP cache headers are considered in web site design? I think it is a great tool to reduce lot of
Scalability
I found this resources: High Scalable Architecture: - YouTube Architecture - Facebook Chat Architecture - Amazon Architecture Blogs: - Scalability Guidelines for building scalable software system (part 1) - Scalability Guidelines for building scalable software system (part 2) - Scalability Guidelines for building scalable software system (part 3) - Scalability
gigaspaces
There were many talks recently about twitter scalability and their specific choice of language such as Scala to address their existing Ruby based scalability. In this post i tried to provide a more methodical approach for handling twitter scalability challenges that is centered around the right choice of architecture patterns
Scalability
This post I provided a summary of recent discussions outlining the main challenges that developers face today when deploying their existing JEE application to the cloud such as complexity, database integration, security, standard JEE support etc. In this post i also provided summary of how we managed to handle those
General Discussion
Hi, We are using AJAX and see a lot of opportunity to keep session state on client browser with javascript objects. Is there any benchmark about how much data you can generally keep in javascript objects in browser? Thanks, Unmesh
Performance
This read will provide you with information about how Netflix deals with high load on their movie rental website. It was written by Bill Scott in the fall of 2008. Read or download the PDF file here
Scalability
For those interested in building scalable systems, today I will speak about the Facebook Char architecture. Starting keynote: ''When your feature’s userbase will go from 0 to 70 million practically overnight, scalability has to be baked in from the start.'' Eugene Lutuchy, lead engineer on