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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The struggle for life that kills. Stunning video of bacteria mutating to defeat antibiotics. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 60%: time spent cleaning dirty dirty BigData; 10 million: that's a lot of Raspberry Pi;
traffic
Can small tribes of cooperating smart cars improve overall traffic even if they are not in the majority? Sure, if every car was a self-driving car maybe traffic jams could dissolve like blood clots on anticoagulants, but what about that messy in-between period? It will be some time before smart
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Who's Hiring? Spotify is looking for individuals passionate in infrastructure to join our Site Reliability Engineering organization. Spotify SREs design, code, and operate tools and systems to reduce the amount of time and effort necessary for our engineers to scale the world’s best music streaming product to
Example
This is a guest post by Jason Bosco, the Dollar Shave Club’s Director of Engineering, Core Platform & Infrastructure, on the infrastructure of its ecommerce technology. With more than 3 million members, Dollar Shave Club will do over $200 million in revenue this year. Although most are familiar with
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: An alternate universe where Zeppelins rule the sky. 1929. (@AeroDork) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 15%: Facebook's reduction in latency using HTTP2's server push; 1.9x: nanotube transistors outperform silicon; 200: projectors
Database
This is guest post by Drew Paroski, architect and engineering manager at MemSQL. Previously he worked at Facebook and developed HHVM, the popular real-time PHP compiler used across the company’s web scale application. Achieving maximum software efficiency through native code generation can bring superior scaling and performance to any
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Spectacular iconic drawing of Aurora Borealis as observed in 1872. (Drawings vs. NASA Images) * 4,000 GB: projected bandwidth used per autonomous vehicle per day; 100K: photos of US national parks; 14 terabytes: code on Github in 1 billion files held in 400K repositories;
Strategy
We’ve seen computation using slime mold, soap film, water droplets, there’s even a 10,000 Domino Computer. Now DNA can do math In a test tube. Using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It’s not fast. Calculations can take hours. The upside: they are tiny and can work
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Hey guys! In this article, I’d like to tell you a story of implementing the anti-spam system for Mail.Ru Group’s email service and share our experience of using the Tarantool database within this project: what tasks Tarantool serves, what limitations and integration issues we faced, what pitfalls
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Who's Hiring? Spotify is looking for individuals passionate in infrastructure to join our Site Reliability Engineering organization. Spotify SREs design, code, and operate tools and systems to reduce the amount of time and effort necessary for our engineers to scale the world’s best music streaming product to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Pixar render farm in 1995 is half of an iPhone (@BenedictEvans) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 33.0%: of all retail goods sold online in the US are sold on Amazon; 110.9 million: monthly
Strategy
Failover does not cut it anymore. You need an ALWAYS ON architecture with multiple data centers.-- Martin Van Ryswyk, VP of Engineering at DataStax Failover, switching to a redundant or standby system when a component fails, has a long and checkered history as a way of dealing with failure.