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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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Chapter by chapter Sergey Ignatchenko is putting together a wonderful book on the Development and Deployment of Massively Multiplayer Games, though it has much broader applicability than games. Here's a recent chapter from his book. Enter Front-End Servers [Enter Juliet] Hamlet: Thou art as sweet as the sum
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Hey, Happy New Year, it's HighScalability time: River system? Vascular system? Nope. It's a map showing how all roads really lead to Rome.If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 71: mentions of innovation by the Chinese
The main purpose of this work is to show results of benchmarking some of the leading in-memory NoSQL databases with a tool named YCSB. We selected three popular in-memory database management systems: Redis (standalone and in-cloud named Azure Redis Cache), Tarantool and CouchBase and one cache system Memcached. Memcached is
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This is a guest post by Thiago Wolff from Peecho. In a nutshell, Peecho is all about turning your digital content into professionally printed products. Although it might look like a simple task, a lot of stuff happens behind the scenes to make that possible. In this article, we’re
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In honor of a certain event what could be better than a double-bladed lightsaber slicing through clouds? (ESA/Hubble & NASA)If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 66,000 yottayears: lifetime of an electron;
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A great question came up on the mechanical-sympathy list that many others probably have as well: I keep hearing about [Docker] as if it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I've heard anecdotal evidence that low latency apps take a hit. Who better to answer than
When AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) was first announced it was right inline with Google’s long standing project to make the web faster. Nothing seemingly out of the ordinary. Then I listened to a great interview on This Week in Google with Richard Gingras, Head of News at Google, that
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cheesy Star Trek graphics? Nope. It's hot gas streaming into Pandora’s Cluster.If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 100 million: John Henry as played by a conventional computer loses to a
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For the first time in ten years there has been an update to the classic Red Book, Readings in Database Systems, which offers "readers an opinionated take on both classic and cutting-edge research in the field of data management." Editors Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Michael Stonebraker
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Who's Hiring? * Senior Devops Engineer - StatusPage.io is looking for a senior devops engineer to help us in making the internet more transparent around downtime. Your mission: help us create a fast, scalable infrastructure that can be deployed to quickly and reliably. * At Scalyr, we're
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This is a guest post by Marcel Panse and Sander Nagtegaal from Teletext.io. In our early Peecho days, we wrote an article explaining how to build a really scalable architecture for next to nothing, using Amazon Web Services. Auto-scaling, merciless decoupling and even automated bidding on unused server capacity