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Gone Fishin': Welcome to High Scalability

As a little trip down memory lane this was the first post on High Scalability, an unbelievable five years ago. The purpose of the site as laid out here has not really changed at all. The goal is to help people do their jobs better and I think more times

Gone Fishin' Two

Well, not exactly Fishin', I'll be on vacation starting today and I'll be back late November. I won't be posting anything new, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know, but fear not, I will be posting some oldies for

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 26, 2012

It's HighScalability Time: * 1.5 Billion Pageviews: Etsy in September; 200 dedicated database servers: Tumblr * Quotable Quotes: * @rbranson : Datadog stays available where it counts (metrics injest) by using Cassandra, combined with an RDBMS for queries. Nice. * @jmhodges : Few engineers know what modern hw is capable of, in part,

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Not All Regions are Created Equal - South America Es Bueno

Rodrigo Campos shared some interesting benchmark results for AWS instances in the South America Region (São Paulo) and US East Region (North Virginia). He summarized the results in this thread on the Guerrilla Capacity Planning list: * The same instance type shows a different behavior depending on the region that it

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Saving Cash Using Less Cache - 90% Savings in the Caching Tier

In a paper delivered at HotCloud '12 by a group from CMU and Intel Labs, Saving Cash by Using Less Cache (slides, pdf), they show it may be possible to use less DRAM under low load conditions to save on operational costs. There are some issues with this idea,

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Spanner - It's About Programmers Building Apps Using SQL Semantics at NoSQL Scale

A lot of people seem to passionately dislike the term NewSQL, or pretty much any newly coined term for that matter, but after watching Alex Lloyd, Senior Staff Software Engineer Google, give a great talk on Building Spanner, that’s the term that fits Spanner best. Spanner wraps the SQL

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19, 2012

It's HighScalability Time: * @davilagrau: Youtube, GitHub,..., Are cloud services facing a entropic limit to scalability? * Async all the way down? The Tyranny of the Clock: The cost of logic and memory dominated Turing's thinking, but today, communication rather than logic should dominate our thinking. Clock-free design

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Save up to 30% by Selecting Better Performing Amazon Instances

If you like the idea of exploiting market inconsistencies to lower your costs then you will love this paper and video from the Hot Cloud '12 conference: Exploiting Hardware Heterogeneity within the Same Instance Type of Amazon EC2. The conclusion is interesting and is a source of good guidance:

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World of Warcraft's Lead designer Rob Pardo on the Role of the Cloud in Games

In a really far ranging and insightful interview by Steve Peterson: Game Industry Legends: Rob Pardo, where the future of gaming is discussed, there was a section on how the cloud might be used in games. I know there are a lot of game developers in my audience, so I

Simpler, Cheaper, Faster: Playtomic's Move from .NET to Node and Heroku

This is a guest post by Ben Lowry, CEO of Playtomic. Playtomic is a game analytics service implemented in about 8000 mobile, web and downloadable games played by approximately 20 million people daily. Here's a good summary quote by Ben Lowry on Hacker News: Just over 20,000,

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Sponsored Post: Zoosk, Aerospike, Server Stack, Wiredrive, NY Times, CouchConf, FiftyThree, Percona, ElasticHosts, ScaleOut, New Relic, NetDNA, GigaSpaces, AiCache, Logic Monitor, AppDynamics, CloudSigma

Gone Fishin': Welcome to High Scalability

Gone Fishin' Two

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 26, 2012

Not All Regions are Created Equal - South America Es Bueno

Saving Cash Using Less Cache - 90% Savings in the Caching Tier

Spanner - It's About Programmers Building Apps Using SQL Semantics at NoSQL Scale

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19, 2012

Save up to 30% by Selecting Better Performing Amazon Instances

Sponsored Post: Server Stack, Akiban, Wiredrive, NY Times, CouchConf, FiftyThree, Percona, ElasticHosts, ScaleOut, New Relic, NetDNA, GigaSpaces, AiCache, Logic Monitor, AppDynamics, CloudSigma

Simpler, Cheaper, Faster: Playtomic's Move from .NET to Node and Heroku