BigData
Data needs the ability to combine with other data in new ways to reach maximum value. So data needs to have the equivalent of sex. That's why I used sex in the title of my previous article, Data Doesn't Need To Be Free, But It Does
BigData
How do we pay for the services we want to create and use? That is the question. Systems like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and all the other services you love are not cheap to build at scale. Grow now and figure out your business model later as the VC funding disappears,
Strategy
The title is a paraphrase of something Raymond Blum, who leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers at Google, said in his talk How Google Backs Up the Internet. I thought it a powerful enough idea that it should be pulled out on its own: Mr. Blum explained common backup
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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. * Mobile Services Software Engineer. The Emerging Technologies/Mobile Services team is looking for a proactive and hardworking software engineer to join our team.
Strategy
This is a guest post by Aaron Sullivan, Director & Principal Engineer at Rackspace. We all love a silver bullet. Over the last few years, if I were to split the outcomes that I see with Rackspace customers who start using SSDs, the majority of the outcomes fall under two
Example
This is a guest post by Doug Barth, a software generalist who has currently found himself doing operations work at PagerDuty. Prior to joining PagerDuty, he worked for Signal in Chicago and Orbitz, an online travel company. A little over six months ago, PagerDuty switched its production MySQL database to
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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. * Enterprise Software Engineer. Apple's Emerging Technology Services group provides a Java based SOA platform for various applications to interact with each
cloud computing
The introduction of cloud technologies is not a simple evolution of existing ones, but a real revolution. Like all revolutions, it changes the points of views and redefines all the meanings. Nothing is as before. This post wants to analyze some key words and concepts, usually used in traditional architectures,
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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. * Enterprise Software Engineer. Apple's Emerging Technology Services group provides a Java based SOA platform for various applications to interact with each
Well, not exactly Fishin', but I'll be on a month long vacation starting today. I won't be posting new content, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know. If you've ever wanted to write an article for HighScalability this would
Strategy
Arvid Norberg on the libtorrent blog has put together an excellent list of principles of high performance programs, obviously derived from hard won experience programming on bittorrent: Two fundamental causes of performance problems: 1. Memory Latency. A big performance problem on modern computers is the latency of SDRAM. The CPU
Networking
What will the version of the Internet that follows us to the stars look like? Yes, people are really thinking seriously about this sort of thing. Specifically the InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG). Ansible-like faster-than-light communication it isn't. There's no magical warp drive. Nor is