automation
It’s hardly news to anyone that product development and testing involve a lot of boring routine work, which can lead to human error. To avoid complications stemming from this, we use AIDA. AIDA (Automated Interactive Deploy Assistant) is a utility that automatically performs many of the processes in Git,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In honor of Twitter's Cha-Ching moment, here's Twitter By the Numbers * Quotable Quotes: * @BrandonBloom: Mutable data structures are only faster b/c they have fewer features: ie no persistence. You must manually recover that feature w/ copying. * @hayesdrumwright: Scale breaks
Database
This aricle, F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales by Srihari Srinivasan, is republished with permission from a blog you really should follow: Systems We Make - Curating Complex Distributed Systems. With both the F1 and Spanner papers out its now possible to understand their interplay a bit holistically. So
AskHighScalability
This question was asked over email and I thought a larger audience might want to take a whack at it. I have a problem I’d like to have your view on. I’ve looked around a lot, and I haven’t found a definite answer. The question is this:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Consumption as a Service: Amazon has 80 1.2 million square foot warehouses.) * 100 megapixel cameras, taking 40 million pictures a second, creating of 1 petabyte of data every second: Large Hadron Collider in Higgs search * Quotable Quotes: * Tim Bell: You can't
humor
The Twelve Networking Truths is one of a long series of timeless truths documented in sacred April Fools' RFCs. Though issued in 1996, it's no less true today. It's hard to pick a favorite because they are all good. But if I had to pick,
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Who's Hiring? * Intechnica is looking for Performance Architects, Performance Engineers, a Lead Automation Engineer, and a Solution Assurance Analyst. If making super-fast systems is your forte, send your CV with covering letter to careers@intechnica.co.uk. * Apple is hiring a Senior Storage Engineer. Software Engineering Operations (SEO)
Strategy
When two titans of the early computing industry, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, had a chance to sit down for a chat at the C2SV conference last Friday, we learned how a little foresight and luck can decide futures. Steve Wozniak's Success - Expandability
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (The WINLAB at Rutgers, with software defined radios tied into GENI.) * 384 cores & 32TB of RAM: Oracle's SPARC M6 * Quotable Quotes: * @jennyinc: 2003: "I replaced you with a set of very small shell scripts." 2013: "I replaced your
This is a guest post about how boring and repetitive HA and scalability problems can be solved via Open Source so you can focus on the interesting tasks. The post was written by Maarten Ectors, responsible for Cloud Strategy and Frank Mueller, a Juju Core developer, at Ubuntu/Canonical. High-availability
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This is a guest post written by Claude Johnson, a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at salesforce.com. The following is an architectural overview of salesforce.com’s core platform and applications. Other systems such as Heroku's Dyno architecture or the subsystems of other products such as work.com
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * $21 Billion: Google spend on datacenters * Quotable Quotes: * @lintool: Jeff Dean at XLDB: Largest Google Bigtable cluster: ~100s PB data; sustained: 30M ops/sec; 100+ GB/s I/O (gmail?) * @neil_conway: On a quick skim, the most surprising thing about the F1 paper