Book
What is the cloud? Why is it called a cloud? How does the cloud work? What does it mean when something is 'in the cloud'? I wrote a new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10, answering those questions for the complete beginner. It makes the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cassini's last image of Saturn, stitched together from 11 color composites, each a stack of three images taken in red, green, and blue channels. (Jason Major) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 21 million: max
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This is a guest post by Jake Lumetta, co-founder and CEO of ButterCMS. ButterCMS lets developers add a content management system to any website in minutes. Our business requires us to deliver near-100% uptime for our API, but after multiple outages that nearly crippled our business, we became obsessed with
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Tech is transforming how food is being grown. Lots of opportunity for local nerdy production. Greenhouses even look like dartacenters! (This Tiny Country Feeds the World) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 320 trillion: ops/second in
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Who's Hiring? * Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Fun and Informative Events * On-demand Webinar. Fast & Frictionless - The Decision Engine for Seamless Digital Business. In this session, guest speakers Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Matthias Baumhof, VP Worldwide Engineering at ThreatMetrix, discuss: How
bloviation
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
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: LiDAR sees an enchanted world. (Luminar) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 14TB: Western Digital Hard Drive; 3B: Yahoo's perfidy; ~80%: companies traded on U.S. stock market 1950-2009 were gone by 2009; 21%: conversion
blockchain
This is a guest post by Mark Travis, Performance Engineer at Ripple. Ripple’s XRP Ledger is a blockchain-based payment network that transfers funds between any type of currency within a few seconds with average transaction costs of a fraction of a penny. The core of this peer-to-peer network is
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know plotted over time. Click on and move the slider to see changes. There were a lot more blocks in 1990. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1040: undergrads enrolled in Stanford&
microservices
This is a guest post by Roger Jin, Software Architect at ButterCMS and co-author of Microservices for Startups. For a profession that stresses the importance of naming things well, we've done ourselves a disservice with microservices. The problem is that that there is nothing inherently "micro"
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Who's Hiring? * Advertise your job here! Fun and Informative Events * October 10 Live Webinar. Fast & Frictionless - The Decision Engine for Seamless Digital Business. Join us for a live webinar on Tuesday, October 10 at 11:00 am Pacific Time featuring guest speakers Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst
Horizontal Scaling
This is a guest post by Arnaud Granal, CTO at Adcash. Adcash is a worldwide advertising platform. It belongs to a category called DSP (demand-side platform). A DSP is a platform where anyone can buy traffic from many different adnetworks. The advertising ecosystem is very fragmented behind the two leaders