With Amazon announcing new High I/O 2TB SSD instances the age of SSD has almost arrived. I say almost because the $27K a year price tag for the hi1.4xlarge on demand instance type is outside the budget of many. Yet even at the full on demand rate the
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This question was sent in by Val, who asking for a little help in creating the next big thing. Any ideas? I'm planning to run my own, first startup website and have been surfing the webs for relevant info to plan the technology I will use for it
CDN
CDNs (content delivery networks) are the secret shadow super powers behind the web and Dan Rayburn at streamingmedia.com is the go to investigative reporter for quality information on CDNs. Every year Dan has a Content Delivery Summit on all things CDN and those videos are now available. Dan also
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It's HighScalability Time: * 4 Trillion Objects: Windows Azure Storage * Quotable Quotes: * @benjchristensen: “What if we could make the data dense and cheap instead of sparse and expensive?” James Gosling @liquidrinc * @sinetpd360: People trying new things and sharing is what helps create scalability. Jim Rickabaugh #siis2012 * @rbranson: This h1.
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GraphChi uses a Parallel Sliding Windows method which can: process a graph with mutable edge values efficiently from disk, with only a small number of non-sequential disk accesses, while supporting the asynchronous model of computation. The result is graphs with billions of edges can be processed on just a single
Strategy
Are all instances created equal? Perhaps because under multi-tenancy multiple virtual machines run on the same physical host, not all applications will run equally well on every instance. In that case it makes sense to measure and move to a better performing instance. That's the interesting idea from
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This is a guest post by Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CTO of Cinchcast and BlogTalkRadio, where he oversees Engineering, QA, TechOps, Telephony, and Product teams. Cinchcast provides solutions that allow companies to create, share, measure and monetize audio content to reach and engage the people that are most important to their
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It's HighScalability Time (Good luck today): * A Friday the 13th Postmorterama: * James Hamilton with some high powered perspective on the report for the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. Apparently they haven't heard of the blameless post-mortem. Lots of interesting stuff, but this is a potentially disaster saving general
Strategy
Travis Reeder in Spikability - An Application's Ability to Handle Unknown and/or Inconsistent Load gives four good ways of handling spikey loads: 1. Have more resources than you'll ever need. Estimate the maximum traffic you'll need and keep that many servers running. Downside
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FictionPress operates both FictionPress.com and FanFiction.net and is home to over 6 million works of fiction, with millions of writers/readers participating from around the world in over 30 languages. Issues addressed: * Support complex and efficient indexes at 100+ million rows. * Predicable and consistent performance regardless of data
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