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Jeremy Edberg, the first paid employee at reddit, teaches us a lot about how to create a successful social site in a really good talk he gave at the RAMP conference. Watch it here at Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion–Pitfalls and Lessons. Jeremy uses a virtue
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Parkour is to terrain as programming is to frameworks) * 5x: AWS vs combined size of other cloud vendors; Every Second on The Internet: Why we need so many servers. * Quotable Quotes: * @chaliy: Today I learned that I do not understand how #azure scaling works,
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Google has released an epic second edition of their ground breaking The Datacenter as a Computer book. It's called an introduction, but at 156 pages I would love to see what the Advanced version would look like! John Fries in a G+ comment has what I think is
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At the heart of every software adventure exists a journey in service of a quest. Melodramatic much? Sorry, but while wandering dazzled through Race to the End of the Earth, a fantastic exhibit at the Royal BC Museum on the 1911-1912 race to the South Pole between Norwegian explorer Roald
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 1 trillion: edges in Facebook's search graph * Quotable Quotes: * Miguel de Icaza: Callbacks as our Generations' Go To Statement * @kaleidic: "Haskell is a great language as a way of thinking, but I prefer programming in a language where I can
With Lavabit shutting down under murky circumstances, it seems fitting to repost an old (2009), yet still very good post by Ladar Levison on Lavabit's architecture. I don't know how much of this information is still current, but it should give you a general idea what
Gordon Ramsay is a world renowned chef with a surprising amount to say on software development. Well, he says it about cooking and running a restaurant, but it applies to software development too. You may have seen Gordon Ramsay on one of his many TV shows. Hell's Kitchen
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 25%: Percentage of North American Internet Traffic served by Google * Quotable Quotes: * Aristotle: We must not expect more precision than the subject-matter admits. * Bret Victor: Technologies change quickly and minds change slowly. Ideas require people to unlearn what they’ve learned and adopt new
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If like many humans you've found even Paxos Made Simple a bit difficult to understand, you might enjoy RAFT as described in In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm by Stanford's Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout. The video presentation of the paper is given by John
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Who's Hiring? * We help Change the world every day. It’s really that simple. There aren’t a lot of technology jobs out there where your work will make it possible for a 5 year old hear or change the Boy Scouts' policy on LGBT teens. http: