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Who's Hiring? * Software Engineer (DevOps). You are one of those rare engineers who loves to tinker with distributed systems at high scale. You know how to build these from scratch, and how to take a system that has reached a scalability limit and break through that barrier to
docker
This is a guest repost from Baqend Tech on deploying and redeploying an Apache Storm cluster on top of Docker Swarm instead of deploying on VMs. It's an interesting topic because of the experience Wolfram Wingerath called it "a real joy", which is not a phrase
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A perfect 10. Really stuck that landing. Nadia Comaneci approves.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * $1B: Supercell’s Clash Royale projected annual haul; 3x: Messenger and WhatsApp send more messages than SMS; 20%: of
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Today Twitter is creating and persisting 3,000 (200 GB) images per second. Even better, in 2015 Twitter was able to save $6 million due to improved media storage policies. It was not always so. Twitter in 2012 was primarily text based. A Hogwarts without all the cool moving pictures
Hadoop
The emergence and continued success of Hadoop has revolutionized the management of big data. This open source MapReduce technology has enabled easy access and reliable answering of advanced data questions. It has taken the data management to a completely new level. The recent news of partnership between salesforce and key
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What happens when Beyoncé meets eCommerce? Ring the alarm.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * $14 billion: one day of purchases on Alibaba; 47 megawatts: Microsoft's new data center space for its MegaCloud;
An interesting question came up on the mechanical-sympathy list about how to best benchmark a stack of different queue (aeron/argona, jctools, dpdk, pony) and transport (aeron, dpdk, seastar) options. Who better to answer than Gil Tene, Vice President of Technology and CTO, Co-Founder, of Azul Systems? Here's
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Who's Hiring? * Software Engineer (DevOps). You are one of those rare engineers who loves to tinker with distributed systems at high scale. You know how to build these from scratch, and how to take a system that has reached a scalability limit and break through that barrier to
With the tax deadline looming in the US and the future of the gig economy as the engine of scaling startup workforces under fire, there's an important point to consider: In the gig economy the entire social contract is kaput. Here's why. Everyone who works in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Time for a little drone envy. Sea Hunter, 132 foot autonomous surface vessel.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 12,000: base pairs in the largest biological circuit ever built; 3x: places GitHub data is
Strategy
This is a guest repost by Suresh Kondamudi from CleverTap. Dealing with large datasets is often daunting. With limited computing resources, particularly memory, it can be challenging to perform even basic tasks like counting distinct elements, membership check, filtering duplicate elements, finding minimum, maximum, top-n elements, or set operations like
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Hey, this is no joke, it's HighScalability time: A glorious battle in EVE. Tens of thousands of pilots fighting tens of thousands of pilots in a real time all on a single shard.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon.