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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Rockets. They're big. You won't believe how really really big they are. (Corridor Crew) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4th of July may never be the same. China creates stunning non-polluting drone swarm firework displays. Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). (TicToc) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me
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consistent hashing
This is a guest post by Srushtika Neelakantam, Developer Advovate for Ably Realtime, a realtime data delivery platform. You can view the original article—How to implement consistent hashing efficiently—on Ably's blog. Ably’s realtime platform is distributed across more than 14 physical data centres and 100s
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Scaling fake ratings. A 5 star 10,000 phone Chinese click farm. (English Russia) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a
Clustering
Severalnines has spent the last several years writing blogs and crafting content to help make your open source database solutions highly available. We are fans of highscalability.com and wanted to post some links to our top resources to help readers learn more how to make MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Percona
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Slovenia. A gorgeous place to break your leg. Highly recommended. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses
Well, not exactly Fishin', but I'll be on a month long vacation starting today. I won't be posting new content, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know. Please use this time for quiet contemplation and other inappropriate activities. Se vidiva kmalu!
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Did ancient Egyptians invent Wi-Fi? @sherifhanna Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and
Update: Ólafur Arnalds built a robotic music system to accompany him on the piano. He calls his system of two semi generative, self playing pianos—STRATUS. You can hear his most recent song re:member. There's more explanation in The Player Pianos pt. II and a short Facebook
Strategy
Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects cascading failures. Here's how Google handles them. This excerpt is a particularly interesting and comprehensive chapter—Chapter 22 - Addressing Cascading Failures—from Google's awesome book on Site Reliability Engineering. Worth reading if it hasn't been on your
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