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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Each dot in this image is an entire galaxy containing billions of stars. What's in there? * Quotable Quotes: * mseepgood: Or "another language that's becoming popular, Node.js" * Joe Moreno: What good are billions of cycles of CPU power
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If you need a good overview of different ways to setup your web service then Mitchell Anicas has written a good article for you: 5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application. We've even included a few additional possibilities at no extra cost. 1. Everything on One Server.
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Yao Yue has worked on Twitter’s Cache team since 2010. She recently gave a really great talk: Scaling Redis at Twitter. It’s about Redis of course, but it's not just about Redis. Yao has worked at Twitter for a few years. She's seen some
Hey, it's HighScalability time: Telephone Tower, late 1880s, 5000 telephone lines. Switching FTW. * 1.3 trillion: row table in SQL server; 100,000: galaxies in the Laniakea supercluster. * Quotable Quotes: * @pbailis: OLAP: data at rest, queries in motion. Stream processing: data in motion, queries at rest. PSoup: data
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James T. Kirk's infamous gambit in Starfleet's impossible to win Kobayashi Maru test was to redefine the problem into a challenge he could beat. Interestingly, an article titled Shifts In Algorithm Design, says something like the same gambit is the modern method of solving algorithmic problems.
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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. * Site Reliability Engineer. The iOS Systems team is building out a Site Reliability organization. In this role you will be expected to work
Update: Larry Page wants a Google 2.0 that will build cities and airports, report says TL;DR: There’s a lot of unused space in North America. Yet cities like San Francisco are becoming ever more expensive because of a bubble created by high tech jobs that seemingly can
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In your best Carl Sagan voice...Billions and Billions of Habitable Planets. * Quotable Quotes: * @Kurt_Vonnegut: Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. * @neil_conway: "The paucity of innovation in calculating join
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This is a guest post by Itamar Haber, Chief Developers Advocate, Redis Labs. While catching up with the world the other day, I read through the High Scalability guest post by Anshu and Rajkumar's from Aerospike (great job btw). I really enjoyed the entire piece and was impressed
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This is a guest repost by Steve Robbins, Chief Architect at MixRadio. At MixRadio, we offer a free music streaming service that learns from listening habits to deliver people a personalised radio station, at the single touch of a button. MixRadio marries simplicity with an incredible level of personalization, for
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Exterminate! 1,024 small, mobile, three-legged machines that can move and communicate using infrared laser beams. * 1.6 billion: facts in Google's Knowledge Vault built by bots; 100: lightening strikes every second * Quotable Quotes: * @stevendborrelli: There's a common feeling here
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This a guest post by Anshu Prateek, Tech Lead, DevOps at Aerospike and Rajkumar Iyer, Member of the Technical Staff at Aerospike. In our first post we busted the myth that cloud != high performance and outlined the steps to 1 Million TPS (100% reads in RAM) on 1 Amazon EC2