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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * Quotable Quotes: * @p337er: I have committed some truly horrendous crimes against scalability today. * @ErrataRob: doubling performance doesn't double scalability. * @rsingel: In 2008 when Yahoo.com linked out, I had a Wired story get 1M visitors in an hour from their homepage. * @philiph:
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Wired has a wonderful interview with Clayton Christensen, author of the tech ninja's bible, Innovator's Dilemma. Innovation is the name of the game in Silicon Valley and if you want to understand the rules of the game this article is a quick and clear way of
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This is a guest post by LogicMonitor's Director of Tech Ops, Jesse Aukeman, about the different ways they're monitoring the success or failure of Puppet runs. If you are like us, you are running some type of linux configuration management tool. The value of centralized configuration
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Who's Hiring? * OLO's food ordering platform powers some of the largest restaurant chains and feeds millions of consumers. We're looking for Senior C# Software Engineers and DevOps Engineers to help us scale our system. Apply here. * The AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) automates management
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * The Herokulypse. A cautionary tale of what can happen when scalability is left for later. Rap Genius created quite a stir (reddit, Hacker News) when they documented high costs ($20K/month for 15 million monthly uniques) and poor performance (6 second average response times)
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At some point as a programmer you might have the insight/fear that all programming is just doing stuff to other stuff. Then you may observe after coding the same stuff over again that stuff in a program often takes the form of interacting patterns of flows. Then you may
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"Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult." -- Carl von Clausewitz Games are proving grounds for software architecture. They combine scale, high performance, challenging problems, a rabid user base, cost sensitivity, and the need for profit. And when games have in-game currency, like EVE
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There's a popular line of thought that says don't waste time on optimization because developing features is more important than saving money. True, you can always add resources, but at some point, especially in a more mature part of a product lifecycle: performance equals $$$. Two great
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 34TB : storage for GitHub search; 2,880,000,000: log lines per day * Quotable Quotes: * @peakscale: The "IKEA effect" << Contributes to NIH and why ppl still like IaaS over PaaS. :-\ * @sheeshee: module named kafka.. creates weird & random processes,
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We are serving dynamic (PHP) websites and their assets (JS/CSS/images/videos/binary downloads) via the same apache hosts. The static files are only being used as origins for CDN services used to distribute those files. Yet, in the current development-deploy pipeline, these files are checked into the same
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Advertising for the Super Bowl is bigger than the game for many viewers. So you gotta figure advertisers are ready for the traffic bursts generated by their expensive ads? Not exactly... Yottaa reports an amazing 13 advertiser websites crashed during the Super Bowl. Coke was interactively au currant, asking viewers
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Hi everybody I'm wondering what you would do: I develop a webapp using Grails, Memcached and Mysql as persistence. Now, I have following domain classes (simplified): Product: Can be in one category Category: Can have nested children, and have multiple products. I need to access all product objects