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This is a guest post by Yiftach Shoolman, Co-founder & CTO of redislabs. Will 3D XPoint change everything? Not as much as you might hope... Recently, investors, analysts, partners and customers have asked me how the announcement from Intel and Micron about their new 3D XPoint memory technology will affect
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In How Uber Scales Their Real-Time Market Platform one of the most intriguing hints was how Uber handles datacenter failovers using driver phones as an external distributed storage system for recovery. Now we know a lot more about how that system works from Uber's Nikunj Aggarwal and Joshua
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is how you blast microprocessors with high-energy beams to test them for space. * terabits: Facebook's network capacity; 56.2 Gbps: largest extortion DDoS attack seen by Akamai; 220: minutes spent usings apps per day; $33 billion: 2015 in-app purchases; 2334: web
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Endings are often a time for reflection and from reflection often comes wisdom. That is the case for Kellan Elliott-McCrea, who recently announced he was leaving his job after five successful years as the CTO of Etsy. Kellan wrote a rather remarkable going away post: Five years, building a culture,
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Who's Hiring? * Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online team is building the next generation of software development tools in the cloud out in Durham, North Carolina. Come help us build innovative workflows around Git and continuous deployment, help solve the Git scale problem or help us build a best-in-class
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Reportedly Uber has grown an astonishing 38 times bigger in just four years. Now, for what I think is the first time, Matt Ranney, Chief Systems Architect at Uber, in a very interesting and detailed talk--Scaling Uber's Real-time Market Platform---tells us a lot about how Uber’s software
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Need a challenge? Solve the code on this 17.5 feet tall 11,000 year old wooden statue! * $100 million: amount Popcorn could have made from criminal business offers; 3.2-gigapixel: World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera; $17.3 trillion: US GDP in 2014;
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Very early in my web career I was introduced to the almost mystical holy grail of web (and now app) properties: increasing user engagement. The reason is simple. The more time people spend with your property the more stuff you can sell them. The more stuff you can sell the
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I serendipitously found this fascinating reply by Richard Farley, your friendly neighborhood meter reader, in a local email list giving a rare first-hand account of how the Advanced Metering Infrastructure works in California. This is real Internet of Things territory. So if it doesn't have a typical post
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: An astonishing 300 billion stars in our galaxy have planets. Take a look in the Eyes on Exoplanets app. * 1 billion: people who used Facebook in a single day; 2.8 million: sq. ft. in new Apple campus (with drone pics); 1.1 trillion:
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This is a guest repost by Siddharth Anand, Data Architect at Agari, on Airbnb's open source project Airflow, a workflow scheduler for data pipelines. Some think Airflow has a superior approach. Workflow schedulers are systems that are responsbile for the periodic execution of workflows in a reliable and
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This is Part 2 of a guest post by Kris Beevers, founder and CEO, NSONE, a purveyor of a next-gen intelligent DNS and traffic management platform. Here's Part 1. Integration and functional testing is crucial Unit testing is hammered home in every modern software development class. It’s