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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 16th, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: First people to free-climb the Dawn Wall of El Capitan using nothing but stone knives and bearskins (pics). * $3.3 trillion: mobile revenue in 2014; ~10%: the difference between a good SpaceX landing and a crash; 6: hours for which quantum memory was held

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StackExchange's Performance Dashboard

StackExchange created a very cool performance dashboard that looks to be updated from real system metrics. Wouldn't it be fascinating if every site had a similar dashboard? The dashboard contains information like there are 560 million page views per month, 260,000 sustained connections, 34 TB data transferred

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The Stunning Scale of AWS and What it Means for the Future of the Cloud

James Hamilton, VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, and long time blogger of interesting stuff, gave an enthusiastic talk at AWS re:Invent 2014 on AWS Innovation at Scale. He’s clearly proud of the work they are doing and it shows. James shared a few eye popping stats about

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 9th, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: UFOs or Floating Solar Balloon power stations? You decide. * 700 Million: WhatsApp active monthly users; 17 million: comments on Stack Exchange in 2014 * Quotable Quotes * John von Neumann: It is easier to write a new code than to understand an old one. * @BenedictEvans: Gross

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The Ultimate Guide: 5 Methods for Debugging Production Servers at Scale

This a guest post by Alex Zhitnitsky, an engineer working at Takipi, who is on a mission to help Java and Scala developers solve bugs in production and rid the world of buggy software. How to approach the production debugging conundrum? All sorts of wild things happen when your code

Von Neumann had one piece of advice for us: not to originate anything.

I don't know about you, but when I read about the exploits of people like John von Neumann, Alan Turing, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Kurt Gödel in Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson, I can't help but flash back

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 2nd, 2015

Hey, it's HighScalability time: From Introduction to Metabolic Scaling Theory - From cells to ecosystems * 53 kilobytes: total amount of RAM in the world in 1953; 180-200 million: daily transactions at The Weather Channel; * Quotable Quotes * Enquist, Brian: Life operates over 21 orders of magnitude in size -

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Linus: The whole "parallel computing is the future" is a bunch of crock.

Linus Torvalds in his usual politically correct way made a typically understated statement about “pushing the whole parallelism snake-oil” that generated almost no response whatsoever. Well, not quite. His comment on Avoiding ping pong has generated hundreds of responses, both on the original post and on Reddit. The contention: The

Scalability as a Service

This is a guest post by Thierry Schellenbach, CEO GetStream.io and author of the open source Stream-Framework, which enables you to build scalable newsfeeds using Cassandra or Redis. We first wrote about our newsfeed architecture on High Scalability in October 2013. Since then our open source Stream-Framework grew to

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