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Building Globally Distributed, Mission Critical Applications: Lessons From the Trenches Part 1

This is Part 1 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 2. Every tech company thinks about it: the unavoidable – in fact, enviable – challenge of scaling its applications and systems as

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 28th, 2015x

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The oldest known fossil of a flowering plant. 130 million years old. What digital will last so long? * 32.6: Ashley Madison password cracks per hour; 1 million: cores in the Human Brain Project's silicon brain; 54,000: tennis balls used at

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7 Strategies for 10x Transformative Change

Peter Thiel, VC, PayPal co-founder, early Facebook investor, and most importantly, the supposed inspiration for Silicon Valley's intriguing Peter Gregory character, argues in his book Zero to One that a successful business needs to make a product that is 10 times better than its closest competitor. The title

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Ask HighScalability: Choose an Async App Server or Multiple Blocking Servers?

Jonathan Willis, software developer by day and superhero by night, asked an interesting question via Twitter on StackOverflow: I've been having discussions with other members of my team on the pros and cons of using an async app server such as the Play! Framework (built on Netty) versus

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 21st, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hunter-Seeker? Nope. This is the beauty of what a Google driverless car sees. Great TED talk. * $2.8 billion: projected Instagram ad revenue in 2017; 1 trillion: Azure event hub events per month; 10 million: Stack Overflow questions asked; 1 billion: max volts generated

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The Microsoft Take on Containers and Docker

This is a guest repost by Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure (and novelist!). We all benefit from a vibrant competitive cloud market and Microsoft is part of that mix. Here's a good container overview along with Microsoft's plan of attack. Do you like their story?

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How Autodesk Implemented Scalable Eventing over Mesos

This is a guest post by Olivier Paugam, SW Architect for the Autodesk Cloud. I really like this post because it shows how bits of infrastructure--Mesos, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Akka, Splunk, Librato, EC2--can be combined together to solve real problems. It's truly amazing how much can get done these

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 14th, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Being Google CEO: Nice. Becoming Tony Stark: Priceless (Alphabet) * $7: WeChat's revenue per user and there are 549 million of them; 60%: Etsy users using mobile; 10: times per second a self-driving car makes a decision; 900: calories in a litre of

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Why My Water Droplet Is Better Than Your Hadoop Cluster

We’ve had computation using slime mold and soap film, now we have computation using water droplets. Stanford bioengineers have built a “fully functioning computer that runs like clockwork - but instead of electrons, it operates using the movement of tiny magnetised water droplets.” By changing the layout of the

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How Google Invented an Amazing Datacenter Network Only They Could Create

Google with justly earned pride recently announced: Today at the 2015 Open Network Summit, we are revealing for the first time the details of five generations of our in-house network technology. From Firehose, our first in-house datacenter network, ten years ago to our latest-generation Jupiter network, we’ve increased the

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Building Globally Distributed, Mission Critical Applications: Lessons From the Trenches Part 1

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 28th, 2015x

7 Strategies for 10x Transformative Change

Ask HighScalability: Choose an Async App Server or Multiple Blocking Servers?

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 21st, 2015

The Microsoft Take on Containers and Docker

Sponsored Post: Surge, Redis Labs, Jut.io, VoltDB, Datadog, MongoDB, SignalFx, InMemory.Net, Couchbase, VividCortex, MemSQL, Scalyr, AiScaler, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

How Autodesk Implemented Scalable Eventing over Mesos

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 14th, 2015

Why My Water Droplet Is Better Than Your Hadoop Cluster

How Google Invented an Amazing Datacenter Network Only They Could Create