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Colin Scott, a Berkeley researcher, updated Jeff Dean’s famous Numbers Everyone Should Know with his Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know interactive graphic. The interactive aspect is cool because it has a slider that let’s you see numbers back from as early as 1990 to the far far
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This is a guest post by Jeff Behl, VP Ops @ LogicMonitor. Jeff has been a bit herder for the last 20 years, architecting and overseeing the infrastructure for a number of SaaS based companies. Data Replication for Disaster Recovery An inevitable part of disaster recovery planning is making sure customer
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 240,000,000,000 URLs : Wayback Machine; 743 billion : number of words Google analyzed to find etaoin srhldcu were the most used letters in the English language * Quotable Quotes: * @actuallyshayne : Building cloud scalability is a lot like playing a tower defense game. * @traviskaufman : lesson
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We usually think of the wonderful advantages of service oriented architectures as a software thing, but it also applies to hardware. In Security Now 385, that Doyen of Disk, Steve Gibson, tells the fascinating story (@ about 41:30) of how moving to a service oriented architecture in hard drives, modeling
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This is a guest post by Ivan de Prado and Pere Ferrera, founders of Datasalt, the company behind Pangool and Splout SQL Big Data open-source projects. The amount of payments performed using credit cards is huge. It is clear that there is inherent value in the data that can be
It's HighScalability time: * 37 Billion: Reddit Pageviews; $3 Billion: Alibaba Sales in a Day; 100 Million: IronMQ Message a Day * @tomasdev: "Divide and Conquer - The Scalability Technique" seems like divide and conquer is the solution for everything. * Innovation is all around you. To see it
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I love it when a somewhat older article like Pinterest Cut Costs From $54 To $20 Per Hour By Automatically Shutting Down Systems hits Hacker News and generates a good conversation. One of the common sentiments about the cloud was raised: why doesn't Pinterest save a lot of
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A big part of engineering for a quality experience is bringing in the long tail. An improbable severe failure can ruin your experience of a site, even if your average experience is quite good. That's where building for resilience comes in. Resiliency used to be outside the realm
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It's HighScalability time: * 306 items per second: Orders on Amazon * Quotable Quotes: * @hackofalltrades: When positive change is only viewed through its scalability, bad things happen. * @faizanj: Is it time for #Netflix to move to a hybrid cloud architecture similar to Zynga zCloud? * @adrianco: we try not to invest
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This topic has been ripped directly from Lambda the Ultimate's What will programming look like in 2020? post. They are having a lively discussion and if you are interested in flexing your holiday thought muscles we might have a good discussion too. Eight years is a difficult prediction
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