General Discussion
I am in the design phase of getting a website up and running that will have scalability as a main concern. I am looking for opinions on architecture and the like for this endeavor. The site has a few unique characteristics that make scalability difficult. Users will all have a
Strategy
A thoughtful reader recently suggested creating a series of posts based on real-life problems people have experienced and the solutions they've created to slay the little beasties. It's a great idea. Often we learn best from great trials and tribulations. I'll start off the
Example
Update 3: 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes and YouTube Strategy: Adding Jitter Isn't A Bug Update 2: YouTube Reaches One Billion Views Per Day. That’s at least 11,574 views per second, 694,444 views per minute, and 41,666,667 views per
Scalability
The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. These best practices have proven to reduce response times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. They focus on the front-end, for example, why it's bad to use "@import" for including stylesheets
General Discussion
i didnt find a nearly good solution for this problem yet: imagine, you're responsible for a small CDN network (static images), with two different datacenter. the balancing for the two DC is done with a anycast nameservice (a nameserver in every DC, user gets on nearest location). so,
mysql search caching architecture
Update 3: Always Refer to Your V1 As a Prototype. You really do have to plan to throw one away. Update 2: Lessons Learned Scaling the Audiogalaxy Search Engine. Things he should have done and fun things he couldn’t justify doing. Update: Design details of Audiogalaxy.com’s high
Product
From their website: FAI is an automated installation tool to install or deploy Debian GNU/Linux and other distributions on a bunch of different hosts or a Cluster. It's more flexible than other tools like kickstart for Red Hat, autoyast and alice for SuSE or Jumpstart for SUN
Product
From their website: DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1. DRBD takes over the data, writes it to the local disk and sends
Scalability User Group
The first meeting will take place on Wednesday March 26 at 6 p.m. in the IBM Innovation Center (Waltham, MA). The first speaker will be Patrick Peralta of Oracle! Patrick will be presenting: Orchestrating Messaging, Data Grid and Database for Scalable Performance. Important Note: There will be pizza at
CDN
A lot of new internet TV station startups are in the wind these days and there's a question about how they can scale their broadcasts. Today's state of the art shows you can't yet mimic the reach of broadcast TV with internet tech. But
Strategy
Update: VcubeV - an OpenVPN-based solution designed to build and operate a multisourced infrastructure. True high availability requires a presence in multiple data centers. The recent downtime of even a high quality operation like Amazon makes this need all the more clear. Typically only the big boys can afford the
Paul Tyma published a massive and massively good 96 page insider's manual on How to Pass a Silicon Valley Software Engineering Interview. My eyes immediately latched on to one of his key example scenarios, which involves scaling Facebook: Facebook ● What was Facebook day 1? – A database with a