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If you are one of those people that think most of the products featured on HighScalability use way too many servers then you'll love this story: 130 VMs serving less than 10,000 users daily were chopped down to just one machine. Here's the setup. A
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This is guest post by Nerijus Bendžiūnas and Tomas Varaneckas of Vinted. Vinted is a peer-to-peer marketplace to sell, buy and swap clothes. It allows members to communicate directly and has the features of a social networking service. Started in 2008 as a small community for Lithuanian girls, it developed
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What a beautiful example of Moore's law visualized through the evolution of Lara Croft! (from @silenok) * $1 million: per day gross of Clash of Clans * Quotable Quotes: * @dancow: In 45 minutes, the largest trader in U.S. equities went bankrupt because of
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I mainly know of Matt Cutts, long time Google employee (since 2000) and currently head of Google's Webspam team, from his appearances on TwiT with Leo Laporte. On TwiT Matt always comes off as smart, thoughtful, and a really nice guy. This you might expect. What I didn’
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Who's Hiring? * Apple is hiring a Application Security Engineer. Apple’s Gift Card Engineering group is looking for a software engineer passionate about application security for web applications and REST services. Be part of a team working on challenging and fast paced projects supporting Apple's business
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On the excellent Accidental Tech Podcast there's a running conversation about Marco Arment's (Tumblr, Instapaper) switch to Go, from a much loved PHP, to implement feed crawling for Overcast, his popular podcasting app for the iPhone. In Episode 101 (at about 1:10) Marco said he
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's a strange world...exotic, gigantic molecules Fit Inside Each Other like Russian nesting dolls * 1.39 billion: Facebook Monthly Active Users; $18 billion profit: Apple in 3 months; 200 million: Kik users; 11.2 billion: age of the oldest known solar
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RIP to my fallen robot followers on Instagram, if there's a heaven for robot instagram users, you guys are in there — alldaychubbyboy (@Allday) How do you scale to handle increased user traffic? Have less traffic. No, this is not a koan. The best way to deal with traffic
I was excited to see that Pat Helland has published another thought provoking paper: Immutability Changes Everything. If video is more your style, Pat gave a wonderful talk on the same subject at RICON2012 (video, slides). It's fun to see how Pat's thinking is evolving over
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Elon Musk: The universe is really, really big [Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K]] * 90: is the new 50 for woman designer; $656.8 million: 3 months of Uber payouts; $10 billion: all it takes to build the Internet in space; 1 billion: registered WeChat users
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This is a guest post by Jenny Richards, a professional database administrator who is currently employed at Remote DBA. In the world of databases, there is no single silver bullet fitting for every gun. How you select the database to use is very dependent on every other factor of your
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Within one week Ello went from thousands of sessions a day to a few million sessions a day. Mike Pack wrote a great article sharing what they’ve learned: 5 Early Lessons from Rapid, High Availability Scaling with Rails. Some of their scaling challenges: quantity of data, team size, DNS,