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This is a guest post by Donatas Abraitis, System Engineer at Vinted, with an unusual approach for saving a little bandwidth. Looking at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1323 there is a nice title: 'TCP Extensions for High Performance'. It's worth to take a look at
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If you want to build a large scale website, scaling out the webserver is not enough. It is also necessary to cleverly manage the database side. a key to high scalability is locking. In PostgreSQL we got a couple of new cool features to reduce locking and to speed up
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Who's Hiring? * As a Networking & Systems Software Engineer at iStreamPlanet you’ll be driving the design and implementation of a high-throughput video distribution system. Our cloud-based approach to video streaming requires terabytes of high-definition video routed throughout the world. You will work in a highly-collaborative, agile environment
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For a long time now stateless services have been the royal road to scalability. Nearly every treatise on scalability declares statelessness as the best practices approved method for building scalable systems. A stateless architecture is easy to scale horizontally and only requires simple round-robin load balancing. What’s not to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Best selfie ever? All vacation photos taken by Apollo astronauts are now online. Fakes, obvi. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * millions: # of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet; 8%
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Here's an interesting nugget from a wonderfully written and deeply interesting article by Roger Hodge in the New Republic: A radical experiment at Zappos to end the office workplace as we know it: Zappos's customer-facing web site has been basically frozen for the last few years
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Pretty much all your load generation and monitoring tools do not work correctly. Those charts you thought were full of relevant information about how your system is performing are really just telling you a lie. Your sensory inputs are being jammed. To find out how listen to the Morpheous of
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Elon Musk's presentation of the Tesla Model X had more in common with a new iPhone event than a traditional car demo. If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 1.4 billion: Android
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When nanoseconds matter you have to pay attention to OS scheduling details. Mark Price, who works in the rarified high performance environment of high finance, shows how in his excellent article on Reducing system jitter. For a tuning example he uses the famous Disrupter inter-thread messaging library. The goal is
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Who's Hiring? * As a Networking & Systems Software Engineer at iStreamPlanet you’ll be driving the design and implementation of a high-throughput video distribution system. Our cloud-based approach to video streaming requires terabytes of high-definition video routed throughout the world. You will work in a highly-collaborative, agile environment
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Here's an article update: How Facebook's Safety Check Works. In a disaster there’s a raw and immediate need to know your loved ones are safe. I felt this way during 9/11. I know I’ll feel this way during the next wild fire in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: How long would you have lasted? Loved The Martian. Can't wait for the game, movie, and little potato action figures. Me, I would have died on the first level. * 60 miles: new record distance for quantum teleportation; 160: size of minimum viable