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This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes, who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things for a new load documentation startup, LoadDocs. Caching is a common approach for improving performance, yet most implementations use strictly classical techniques. In this article we will explore the modern
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Imaginary Kingdom of Aurullia. A completely computer generated fractal. Stunning and unnerving.If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 42,000: drones from China securing the South China Sea; 1 billion: WhatsApp active users; 2⁻¹²²: odds of a
Unikernel Systems Joins Docker. Now this is an interesting match. The themes are security and low overhead, though they do seem to solve the same sort of problem. So, what's going on? In FLOSS WEEKLY 302 Open Mirage, starting at about 10 minutes in, there are a series
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This is a guest repost of an interview posted by Ryan S. Brown that originally appeared on serverlesscode.com. It continues our exploration of building systems on top of Lambda. Paging David Guetta fans: this week we have an interview with the team that built the site behind his latest
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Who's Hiring? * Manager - Site Reliability Engineering: Lead and grow the the front door SRE team in charge of keeping Netflix up and running. You are an expert of operational best practices and can work with stakeholders to positively move the needle on availability. Find details on the
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Which cloud should you use? It may depend on what you need to do with it. What Zach Bjornson needs to do is process large amounts scientific data as fast as possible, which means reading data into memory as fast as possible. So, he made benchmark using Google's
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Space walk from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Nope. A base jump from the CN Tower in Toronto.If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 13.5TB: open data from Yahoo for machine learning; 1+ exabytes: data stored in the
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Operating at Facebook scale is far from trivial. With 1.49 billion monthly active users (and growing 13 percent yearly), every 60 seconds on Facebook 510 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses are updated, and 136,000 photos are uploaded. And there lies the challenge of serving the masses efficiently
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How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect, gives an excellent talk on just that subject: AWS re:Invent 2015 Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users. If you are an advanced AWS user this
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This is so good! Perfect for your Monday morning jam. Uptime Funk is a music video (parody of Uptown Funk) from SUSECon 2015 in Amsterdam.My favorite: I'm all green (hot patch) Called a Penguin and Chameleon I'm all green (hot patch) Call Torvalds and Kroah-Hartman
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Finally, a clear diagram of Amazon's industry impact. (MARK A. GARLICK)If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 150: # of globular clusters in the Milky Way; 800 million: Facebook Messenger users; 180,000: high-res images of the
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There’s a long history of donating spare compute cycles for worthy causes. Most of those efforts were started in the Desktop Age. Now, in the Cloud Age, how can we donate spare compute capacity? How about through a private spot market? There are cycles to spare. Public Cloud Usage