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Once upon a time a great Twitter melee was fought for the coveted title of Consensus Best Way to Structure Systems. The competition was between Microservices and Monolithic Apps. Flying the the logo of Microservices, from a distant cloud covered land, is the Kingdom of Netflix, whose champion was Sir
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's systems all the way down. Bugs That Call Us Home. * 1 million users in just 4 days: Yo; 30 billion: Pinterest Pins. * Quotable Quotes: * @GlennF: Amazon still dreams it is a startup, like a dog dreaming of chasing rabbits, twitching its
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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. * Software Developer in Test. The iOS Systems team is looking for a Quality Assurance engineer. In this role you will be expected to
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The folks at Stack Overflow remain incredibly open about what they are doing and why. So it’s time for another update. What has Stack Overflow been up to? The network of sites that make up StackExchange, which includes StackOverflow, is now ranked 54th for traffic in the world; they
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The one is many. Lichen composed of possibly 400 distinct species. * Quotable Quotes: * The Master Switch: Selling radio sets—the old revenue model—was a good if limited business, for ultimately few households would need more than one radio every few years. But advertising
Strategy
While Ten Caching Mistakes that Break your App by Omar Al Zabir is a few years old, it is still a great source of advice on using caches, especially on the differences between using a local in-memory cache and when using a distributed cache. Here are the top 10 mistakes
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Have you ever wondered how bitly makes money? A URL shortener can’t be that hard to write, right? Sean O'Connor, Lead Application Developer at bitly, answers the how can bitly possibly make money question immediately in a talk he gave on bitly at the Bacon conference. Writing
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Yesterday in history: Nikola Tesla's Birthday, born in 1856. The greatest geek who ever lived? * 10Gbps: New world record broadband speed of 10 Gbps over copper. * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: There were 40m internet users when Netscape IPOed. The time's not
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“You just can't have it all” is a phrase that most of us are accustomed to hearing and that many still believe to be true when discussing the speed, scale and cost of processing data. To reach high speed data processing, it is necessary to utilize more memory
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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. * Senior Security Engineer. As a Senior Security Engineer on our team, you will be the ‘tip of the spear’ and will have direct
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This is a guest post by Elizabeth Osterloh and Tobias Wilke of cloudControl. Startups face very different issues than big companies when they build software. Larger companies develop projects over much longer time frames and often have entire IT-departments to support them in creating customized architecture. It’s an entirely
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Beauty is everywhere. Household dust magnified 22 million times. * Let's play a game of guess the company. They have: >100 billion searches per month; > 60 trillion known URLs; > 50 billion facts in knowledge graph; > 100 hours of video