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BigData using Erlang, C and Lisp to Fight the Tsunami of Mobile Data

This is a guest post by Jon Vlachogiannis. Jon is the founder and CTO of BugSense. BugSense, is an error-reporting and quality metrics service that tracks thousand of apps every day. When mobile apps crash, BugSense helps developers pinpoint and fix the problem. The startup delivers first-class service to its

Gone Fishin': PlentyOfFish Architecture

Other than StackOverflow, PlentyOfFish is perhaps the most spectacular example of scale-up architectures working for what your average sane person would consider a large system. It doesn't hurt that it's also a sexy story. Update 5: PlentyOfFish Update - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images

Gone Fishin': Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than Twitter

With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do. Growing at over 30% a month has not

Gone Fishin': Justin.Tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture

This is one of my favorite posts for a couple of reasons. I think it gives a lot of useful information in an interesting space. And Kyle Vogt was just a real pleasure to talk to. He was very helpful and forthcoming, which makes the whole experience better for everyone.

Gone Fishin': Hilarious Video: Relational Database Vs NoSQL Fanbois

This is an all time favorite post. Even though I've seen this video a hundred times I still can't help but laugh... This is so funny I laughed until I cried! Definitely NSFW. OMG it's hilarious, but it's also not a bad

Gone Fishin': 10 Ways to Take your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose

This is the post that got me kicked off my original shared hosting service and prompted the move to SquareSpace. I couldn't figure out why so many people were reading this article. But they kept on coming. The site went down and I was told to vamoose. It

Gone Fishin': Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud

All in all this is still my favorite post and I still think it's an accurate vision of a future. Not everyone agrees, but I guess we'll see... "But it is not complicated. [There's] just a lot of it." -- Richard Feynman

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Are we seeing the renaissance of enterprises in the cloud?

A series of recent surveys on the subject seems to indicate that this is indeed the case: Research conducted by HP found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps to the cloud. Of the 940 respondents, 80 percent revealed plans to

Cost Analysis: TripAdvisor and Pinterest costs on the AWS cloud

This is a guest post by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Technical Lead at PlanForCloud.com. I read a recent blog post about TripAdvisor's experiment with AWS where they attempted to process 700K HTTP requests per minute on a replica of their live site. There was also an interesting blog post

Gone Fishin': LiveJournal Architecture

This was the first architecture profile on HighScalability. IMHO LiveJournal was really the start of the openness on how to build stuff at scale, setting the whole industry off with an excellent role model. They wrote about their architecture, they open sourced their tools, they showed that success wasn'

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