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Scott Hanselman gives a hilarious and insightful talk in Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler, a keynote at Velocity Santa Clara 2014. The topic of his talk is an intuitive understanding of the cloud and why it's the best thing ever. At about 6:30 into the video Scott
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This is a guest repost by Zoli Kahan from Clay.io. This is the first post in my new series 10x, where I share my experiences and how we do things at Clay.io to develop at scale with a small team. If you find these things interesting, we'
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Is the database landscape evolving or devolving? * 76 million: once more through the data breach; 2016: when a Zettabyte is transfered over the Internet in one year * Quotable Quotes: * @wattersjames: Words missing from the Oracle PaaS keynote: agile, continuous delivery, microservices, scalability, polyglot, open
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Who's Hiring? * Apple has multiple openings. Changing the world is all in a day's work at Apple. Imagine what you could do here. * Siri Operations Developer. Apple is looking for talented developers to help build the next generation internal cloud platform for Siri. This person should
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Is flat design just another pretty face or is it a huge performance hack cloaked as a UI revolution? It turns out flat design is a stone cold performance win. This and more is expertly explained by Tyler Kieft, Engineer at Instagram, in a crisp and content filled talk he
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: With tensegrity landing balls we'll be the coolest aliens to ever land on Mars. * 6-8Tbps: Apple’s live video stream; $65B: crowdfunding's contribution to the global economy * Quotable Quotes: * @bodil: I asked @richhickey and he said "a transducer is
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Alex Bordei, product manager for Bigstep’s Full Metal Cloud, in Scaling NoSQL databases: 5 tips for increasing performance, shares a nice set of lessons he's learned about how NoSQL databases scale: * Never assume linearity in scaling. Hardware prices grow exponentially as the specs increase, but not all
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Update: Instagram Improved Their App's Performance. Here's How. When you find your mobile application that ran fine in the US is slow in other countries, how do you fix it? That’s a problem Facebook talks about in a couple of enlightening videos from the @scale
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Galactic bolt-hole or supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 21 million suns? * Quotable Quotes: * @debuggist: Chief takeaway from #velocityconf for me: failure happens so monitor for the ones that are important albeit in systems or culture & fix them * @Carnage4Life: The real tech
That's the eye popping prediction from Krste Asanović, University of California, Berkeley, in a presentation he gave at FAST '14 titled: FireBox: A Hardware Building Block for 2020 Warehouse-Scale Computers (pdf). FireFox looks system like this: Trends in Warehouse Scale Computers (WSC)s: * Small scale services are
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Who's Hiring? * Apple has multiple openings. Changing the world is all in a day's work at Apple. Imagine what you could do here. * Siri Operations Developer. Apple is looking for talented developers to help build the next generation internal cloud platform for Siri. This person should
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Three baseball umpires were sitting around a bar, talking about how they make calls on each pitch: First umpire: Some are balls and some are strikes, and I call them as they are. Second umpire: Some are balls and some are strikes, and I call them as I see '