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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * @rodos: With so much manure in the room of #BigData the must be a pony in here somewhere! * @adron: #ricon2012 OH "it isn't cloud, nosql or whatever, it's distributed systems... That is the change!" Smartest thing stated
Paper
RAMCube is a datacenter oriented design for RAM-based key-value store that supports thousands or tens of thousands of servers to offer up to hundreds of terabytes of RAM storage. Here's the PDF Paper describing the system and here's a video of the presentation given at HotCloud.
Strategy
Salvatore Sanfilippo wrote a response to Michel Martens' An Open Minded Reader. There's nothing in the post or response that's controversial. I was just struck at what a clear explication the conversation was on all the effort that goes into optimizing read paths. We optimize
Product
This post is by Hasan Ceylan, an Open Source software enthusiast from Istanbul. I loved the JPA 1.0 back in early 2000s. I started using it together with EJB 3.0 even before the stable releases. I loved it so much that I contributed bits and parts for JBoss
Example
This is a guest post by Jeffrey Damick, Principal Software Engineer for Neustar. Jeffrey has overseen the software architecture for UltraDNS for last two and half years as it went through substantial revitalization. UltraDNS is one the top the DNS providers, serving many top-level domains (TLDs) as well as second-level
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It's HighScalability Time: * 30 Million: Lady Gaga Twitter followers; 1 Billion: active Facebook users; * Quotable Quotes: * @mappingbabel: Oracle exec says "we're not competing with Amazon for Netflix, we're competing with Amazon for Boeing," * @CompSciFact: "Most software looks more like a whirlpool
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Update: More background by Ikai Lan, who worked on the mobile server team at LinkedIn, says some facts were left out: the app made "a cross data center request, guys. Running on single-threaded Rails servers (every request blocked the entire process), running Mongrel, leaking memory like a sieve."
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This is a guest post by Shawn Hsiao, Luke Massa, and Victor Luu. Shawn runs TripAdvisor’s Technical Operations team, Luke and Victor interned on his team this past summer. This post is introduced by Andy Gelfond, TripAdvisor’s head of engineering. It's been a little over a
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * @dbasch: The world is full of "scalability engineers" who would die from an orgasm if their software ever saw 10,000 requests in a day. * @mtnygard: “Scaling issues are always expressed as a queue backing up somewhere.” —@moonpolysoft #strangeloop * @rbranson: If
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This is a guest post by Barry Abrahamson, Chief Systems Wrangler at Automattic, and Nginx's Coufounder Andrew Alexeev. WordPress.com serves more than 33 million sites attracting over 339 million people and 3.4 billion pages each month. Since April 2008, WordPress.com has experienced about 4.4
Strategy
Google recently released a paper on Spanner, their planet enveloping tool for organizing the world’s monetizable information. Reading the Spanner paper I felt it had that chiseled in stone feel that all of Google’s best papers have. An instant classic. Jeff Dean foreshadowed Spanner’s humungousness as early