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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cool geneology of Relational Database Management Systems. * 9,000: Artifacts Uncovered in California Desert; 400 Million: LinkedIn members; 100: CEOs have more retirement assets than 41% of American families; $160B: worth of AWS; 12,000: potential age of oldest oral history; fungi: world'
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I've been bitten by this one. It happens when you quite naturally use the file system as a quick and dirty database. A directory is a lot like a table and a file name looks a lot like a key. You can store many-to-one relationships via subdirectories. And
Peter Bailis has released the work of a lifetime, his dissertion is now available online: Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases. The topic Peter is addressing is summed up nicely by his thesis statement: Many semantic requirements of database-backed applications can be efficiently enforced without coordination, thus improving scalability, latency, and
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This is a guest repost by Christophe Limpalair, creator of Scale Your Code. In this article, we take a look at methods used by Shopify to make their platform resilient. Not only is this interesting to read about, but it can also be practical and help you with your own
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Movie goers Force Crashed websites with record ticket presales. Yoda commented: Do. Or do not. There is no try. * $51.5 billion: Apple quarterly revenue; 1,481: distance in light years of a potential Dyson Sphere; $470 billion: size of insurance industry data play;
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IEEE Spectrum has a wonderful article series on Lessons From a Decade of IT Failures. It’s not your typical series in that there are very cool interactive graphs and charts based on data collected from past project failures. They are really fun to play with and I can only
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Who's Hiring? * Digit Game Studios, Irish’s largest game development studio, is looking for game server engineers to work on existing and new mobile 3D MMO games. Our most recent project in development is based on an iconic AAA-IP and therefore we expect very high DAU & CCU
Are there ideas in IT that must die for progress to be made? Max Planck wryly observed that scientific progress is often less meritocracy and more Lord of the Flies: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The amazing story of Voyager's walkabout and the three body problem. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * $18 billion: wasted on US Army Future Combat system; 70%: Americans who support an Internet
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Instagram has always been generous in sharing their accumulated wisdom. Just take a look at the Related Articles section of this post to see how generous. The tradition continues. Mike Krieger, Instagram co-founder, wrote a really good article on lessons learned from milestones achieved during Five Years of Building Instagram.
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This is a guest repost from Calvin French-Owen, CTO/Co-Founder of Segment. In Segment’s early days, our infrastructure was pretty hacked together. We provisioned instances through the AWS UI, had a graveyard of unused AMIs, and configuration was implemented three different ways. As the business started taking off, we
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The other world beauty of the world's largest underground Neutrino Detector. Yes, this is a real thing. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 170,000: depression era photos; $465m: amount lost due