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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 100 Billion - Neurons in The Human Brain, As Many Cells as Stars in the Milky Way; 10TB - Tumblr memcache * Quoteable Quotes: * @thoward3: OH: "We make scalability a possibility.. You know, we make 'scalapossibilty'. " * Tesla: When wireless is perfectly
Paper
Joe Armstrong is a co-inventor of Erlang and general all around renaissance software tinkerer as shown by his excellent work on writing a C Compiler and his voluminous work on GitHub. Given the success of Erlang it's probably no surprise that he wrote his thesis on the ground
Strategy
Solving problems while saving money is always a problem. In Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster they give some counter-intuitive advice by showing a big-memory server may provide better performance per dollar than a cluster: 1. For jobs where the input data is multi-terabyte or larger
Example
This is a repost of part 1 of an interview I did for the Boundary blog. Boundary: What is Facebook’s secret sauce for managing what’s got to be the biggest Big Data project, if you will, on the Web? Hoff: From several presentations we’ve learned what Facebook
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings) * Two Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests / Second: S3; 1.4TB/s: Titan supercomputer has world’s fastest storage; four billion hours: Netflix streaming in last 3 months; $1.2B: Google's Q1 infrastructure spend * Quotable Quotes: * Google: We&
Product
Tachyon (github) is interesting new filesystem brought to by the folks at the UC Berkeley AMP Lab: Tachyon is a fault tolerant distributed file system enabling reliable file sharing at memory-speed across cluster frameworks, such as Spark and MapReduce.It offers up to 300 times higher throughput than HDFS, by
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Who's Hiring? * LogicMonitor is looking for a Front End developer to have a huge impact, be valued, realize their dreams, and help us realize ours. We are looking for someone to own the code that delivers the design and usability of LogicMonitor's enterprise SaaS application(s)
Example
Pinterest has been riding an exponential growth curve, doubling every month and half. They’ve gone from 0 to 10s of billions of page views a month in two years, from 2 founders and one engineer to over 40 engineers, from one little MySQL server to 180 Web Engines, 240
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings) * 877,000 TPS: Erlang and VoltDB. * Quotable Quotes: * Hendrik Volkmer: Complexity + Scale => Reduced Reliability + Increased Chance of catastrophic failures * @TheRealHirsty: This coffee could use some "scalability" * @billcurtis_: Angular.js with Magento + S3 json file caching = wicked scalability
Example
In Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps Mike Maelzer paints a wonderful picture of how Avocado, a mobile app for connecting couples, evolved to handle 30x traffic within a few weeks. If you are just getting started then this is a great example to
Horizontal Scaling
This is a repost of the blog entry written by NuoDB's Tommy Reilly. We at NuoDB were recently given the opportunity to kick the tires on the Google Compute Engine by our friends over at Google. You can watch the entire Google Developer Live Session by clicking here.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Dr. Who Scaling Up the Shard click for cool animated gif) * 50 sextillion: # of earth-like planets in universe; 100,000: stars * Quotable Quotes: * @petdance: "I wish I had enough money to run Oracle instead of Postgres." "Why do you want to