High Scalability (Page 64)

1 Aerospike server X 1 Amazon EC2 instance = 1 Million TPS for just $1.68/hour

This a guest post by Anshu Prateek, Tech Lead, DevOps at Aerospike and Rajkumar Iyer, Member of the Technical Staff at Aerospike. Cloud infrastructure services like Amazon EC2 have proven their worth with wild success. The ease of scaling up resources, spinning them up as and when needed and paying

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 15th, 2014

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Somehow this seems quite appropriate. (via John Bredehoft) * 75 acres: Pizza eaten in US daily; 270TB: Backblaze storage pod; 14nm: Intel extends Moore's Law * Quotable Quotes * discreteevent: The dream of reuse has made a mess of many systems. * David Crawley: Don'

Database

Hamsterdb: An Analytical Embedded Key-value Store

In this post, I’d like to introduce you to hamsterdb, an Apache 2-licensed, embedded analytical key-value database library similar to Google's leveldb and Oracle's BerkeleyDB. hamsterdb is not a new contender in this niche. In fact, hamsterdb has been around for over 9 years. In

Example

The Easy Way of Building a Growing Startup Architecture Using HAProxy, PHP, Redis and MySQL to Handle 1 Billion Requests a Week

This Case Study is a guest post written by Antoni Orfin, Co-Founder and Software Architect at Octivi. In the post I'll show you the way we developed quite simple architecture based on HAProxy, PHP, Redis and MySQL that seamlessly handles approx 1 billion requests every week. There’ll

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 8th, 2014

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Physicists reveal the scaling behaviour of exotic giant molecules. * 5 billion: Transistors Intel manufactures each second; 396M: WeChat active users * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: Every hour or so, Apple ships phones with something around 2x more transistors than were in all the PCs on earth

Database

Tokutek White Paper: A Comparison of Log-Structured Merge (LSM) and Fractal Tree Indexing

What data structure does your database use? It's not something the typical database user spends much time pondering. Since data structure is destiny, what data structure your database uses is a key point to consider in your selection process. We know CouchDB uses a modified B+ tree. We&

Tumblr: Hashing Your Way to Handling 23,000 Blog Requests per Second

This is a guest post by Michael Schenck, SRE Staff Engineer at Tumblr. At Tumblr, blogs (or Tumblelog) are one of our most highly trafficked faces on the internet. One of the most convenient aspects of tumblelogs is their highly cacheable nature, which is fantastic because of the high views/

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 1st, 2014

Hey, it's HighScalability time: From Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud. * Quotable Quotes: * @shanselman: Wife: "How was your day?" Me: "I'm using Grunt to automate NuGet creation for AngularJS." Wife: "But will that scale?" Me: "Well played." * John

Paper

Paper: ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

Do you really need to roll your own? ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems: The ZooKeeper interface enables a high-performance service implementation. In addition to the wait-free property, ZooKeeper provides a per client guarantee of FIFO execution of requests and linearizability for all requests that change the ZooKeeper state. These

Strategy

Preventing the Dogpile Effect - Problem and Solution

This is a guest repost Przemek Sobstel, who believes that dogpile effect issue is not covered enough, especially in the PHP world. Orignal article: Preventing dogpile effect. The Dogpile effect occurs when cache expires and websites are hit by numerous requests the same time. From my own experiences working on

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1 Aerospike server X 1 Amazon EC2 instance = 1 Million TPS for just $1.68/hour

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 15th, 2014

Hamsterdb: An Analytical Embedded Key-value Store

The Easy Way of Building a Growing Startup Architecture Using HAProxy, PHP, Redis and MySQL to Handle 1 Billion Requests a Week

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 8th, 2014

Tokutek White Paper: A Comparison of Log-Structured Merge (LSM) and Fractal Tree Indexing

Sponsored Post: Apple, Gawker, FoundationDB, Monitis, Cie Games, BattleCry, Surge, Cloudant, CopperEgg, Logentries, Couchbase, MongoDB, BlueStripe, AiScaler, Aerospike, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

Tumblr: Hashing Your Way to Handling 23,000 Blog Requests per Second

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 1st, 2014

Paper: ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

Preventing the Dogpile Effect - Problem and Solution