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One of the strategies Jacob Richter describes (How we built a big data platform on AWS for 100 users for under $2 a month) in his relentless drive to lower AWS costs is moving ML from the server to the client. Moving work to the client is a time honored
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Freeman Dyson dissects Geoffrey West's book on universal scaling laws, Scale. (Image: Steve Jurvetson) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. And I'd appreciate if you would recommend my new book—Explain the Cloud
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This excerpt—Appendix B - A Collection of Best Practices for Production Services—is from Google's awesome book on Site Reliability Engineering. Worth reading if it hasn't been on your radar. And it's free! Fail Sanely Sanitize and validate configuration inputs, and respond to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Bathroom tile? Grandma's needlepoint? Nope. It's a diagram of the dark web. Looks surprisingly like a tumor. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. And I'd appreciate if you would recommend my
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This is a guest post by Alban Perillat-Merceroz, Software Engineer at Teads.tv. In this article, we describe how we orchestrate Kafka, Dataflow and BigQuery together to ingest and transform a large stream of events. When adding scale and latency constraints, reconciling and reordering them becomes a challenge, here is
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Programmable biology - engineered cells execute programmable multicellular full-adder logics. (Programmable full-adder computations) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. And I'd appreciate if you would recommend my new book—Explain the Cloud Like I'
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This is a guest Post by Jake Lumetta, Founder and CEO, ButterCMS, an API-first CMS. For more content like this, follow @ButterCMS on Twitter and subscribe to our blog. Are your microservices too small or too tightly coupled? Are you confident in your decision-making about service boundaries? In interviews with
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This is a guest post by Jonathan Kosgei, founder of ipdata, an IP Geolocation API. I woke up on Black Friday last year to a barrage of emails from users reporting 503 errors from the ipdata API. Our users typically call our API on each page request on their websites
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: “Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.
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Who's Hiring? * Clover is looking for seasoned software engineers to help us solve the most complicated problem in the world: healthcare. We're using sophisticated data analytics, custom software, and machine learning to coordinate care and build a clearer model of our member's health and
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hermetic symbolism was an early kind of programming. Symbols explode into layers of other symbols, like a programming language, only the instruction set is the mind. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. And I'd appreciate