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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (full) * Quotable Quotes: * @ML_Hipster: A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion. * OH: Network effects don't happen
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Rick Reed in an upcoming talk in March titled That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the next level at WhatsApp reveals some eye popping WhatsApp stats: What has hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores, hundreds of terabytes of RAM, and hopes to serve
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Inspired by a xkcd comic, Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google and all around interesting and nice guy, has created an above par code kata involving a regex program that demonstrates the core inner loop of many successful systems profiled on HighScalability. The original code is at xkcd 1313:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time (a particularly bountiful week): The Telephone Wires of Manhattan in 1887 (full) * $19 billion: you know what it is; $46 billion: cost of Sochi Olympics; 400 gigabytes: data transmitted during the Sochi opening ceremony; 26.9 million: Stack Overflow community monthly visitors; 93 million:
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Algorithms are moving out of the Platonic realm and are becoming dynamic first class players in real life. We've seen corporations become people. Algorithms will likely also follow that path to agency. Kevin Slavin in his intriguing TED talk: How Algorithms Shape Our World, gives many and varied
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Who's Hiring? * Apple is hiring for multiple positions. Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. * Sr Software Engineer. The Emerging Technology team is looking for a highly motivated, detail-oriented, energetic individual with
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This is a guest post by Dave Hagler Systems Architect at AOL. The AOL homepages receive more than 8 million visitors per day. That’s more daily viewers than Good Morning America or the Today Show on television. Over a billion page views are served each month. AOL.com has
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Climbing the World's Second Tallest Building * 5 billion: Number of phone records NSA collects per day; Facebook: 1.23 billion users, 201.6 billion friend connections, 400 billion shared photos, and 7.8 trillion messages sent since the start of 2012. * Quotable
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Snabb Switch - a toolkit for solving novel problems in networking. If you are building a new packet-processing network appliance then you can use Snabb Switch to get the job done more quickly. Here's a great impassioned overview from erichocean: https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch Our current engineering
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In the scalability is specialization department here is an interesting paper presented at HotNets '13 on high performance networking: Network Stack Specialization for Performance. The idea is generalizing a service so it fits in the kernel comes at a high performance cost. So move TCP into user space. The
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HackerEarth is a coding skill practice and testing service that in a series of well written articles describes the trials and tribulations of building their site and how they overcame them: Scaling Python/Django application with Apache and mod_wsgi, Programming challenges, uptime, and mistakes in 2013, Post-mortem: The big
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Google "Corkboard" Server, 1999 * 5 billion requests per day: Heroku serves 60,000 requests per second; 500 Petabytes: Backblaze's New Data Center; 25000 simultaneous connections: on a Percona Server * How algorithms help determine that shape of our world. First we