nosql
This is the third guest post (part 1, part 2) of a series by Greg Lindahl, CTO of blekko, the spam free search engine. Previously, Greg was Founder and Distinguished Engineer at PathScale, at which he was the architect of the InfiniPath low-latency InfiniBand HCA, used to build tightly-coupled supercomputing
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It's HighScalability Time (with 33% more goodness for the same NoPrice): * 2.5 terabits per second : Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams; One Trillion Tons : Carbon Pollution; 1 Megawatt: more power due to leap second; 100,000 terabytes: information storage capability of one gram of human stool; 2.8B social
Strategy
Wildly popular VC blogger Fred Wilson defines in an excellent 27 minute video the ten most important criteria he uses when deciding to give the gold, that is, fund a web application. Note, this video is from 2010, so no doubt the ideas are still valid, but the importance of
Database
This is a guest post by Douglas Wilson, EMEA Field Application Engineer at Raima, based on insights from biulding their Raima Database Manager. Scalability and Hardware Scalability is the ability to maintain performance as demands on the system increase, by adding further resources. Normally those resources will be in the
After poking around the Google Compute Engine (GCE) documentation I had some trouble creating a mental model of how GCE works. Is it like AWS, GAE, Rackspace, just what is it? After watching Google I/O 2012 - Introducing Google Compute Engine and Google Compute Engine -- Technical Details, it
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Judging from the tweet flow, Velocity looked like a riotous good time. In this video on the main themes at Velocity, after a little microphone enhanced violence, John Allspaw and Steve Souders identify resilience and automation as two of the big ideas behind building a faster and stronger web. John
Paper
Neil Conway from Berkeley CS is giving an advanced level talk at a meetup today in San Francisco on a new paper: Logic and Lattices for Distributed Programming - extending set logic to support CRDT-style lattices. The description of the meetup is probably the clearest introduction to the paper: In
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Example
StubHub is an interesting architecture to take a look at because, as market makers for tickets, they are in a different business than we normally get to consider. StubHub is surprisingly large, growing at 20% a year, serving 800K complex pages per hour, selling 5 million tickets per year, and
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quoteable Quotes: * @xinqiyang: Partition, replicate, index. Many efficiency and scalability problems are solved the same way. * @SnideLemon: Let's switch to a bottle of wine for economic scalability." -- the best justification for additional drinking ever * @cloudbees: "A whopping 57% of respondents
image solution
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on how to store millions of images? Currently images are stored in a MS SQL database which performance wise isn't ideal. We'd like to migrate the images over to a file system structure but I'd assume we
Example
This is a guest post by Rodrigo Guzman, CTO of iDoneThis, which makes status reporting happen at your company with the lightest possible touch. iDoneThis is a simple management application that emails your team at the end of every day to ask, "What'd you get done today?