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In Taming The Long Latency Tail we covered Luiz Barroso’s exploration of the long tail latency (some operations are really slow) problems generated by large fanout architectures (a request is composed of potentially thousands of other requests). You may have noticed there weren’t a lot of solutions. That’
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Ilya Grigorik has written another wonderful article lavishly detailing the extraordinary tactics Chrome employs to hide network latency from users: Chrome Networking: DNS Prefetch & TCP Preconnect. Ilya springs some surpising factoids on us, revealing how the web has slowed and super sized: * The size of an average page has
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Cloud bursting is an application deployment model in which an application runs in a private cloud or data center and bursts into a public cloud when the demand for computing capacity spikes. The advantage of such a hybrid cloud deployment is that an organization only pays for extra compute resources
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It's HighScalability Time: * 100PB : Facebook HDFS Cluster; One Trillion : Objects in S3 * Quotable quotes: * @mwinkle : Listening to NASA big data challenges at #hadoopSummit, the square kilometer array project will produce 700tb per second. TB. Per second. * @imrantech : #hadoopsummit @twitter - 400M tweets, 80-100TB per day * @r39132 : At Netflix
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The ever amazing slime mold is not the only way to solve complex compute problems without performing calculations. There is another: soap film. Unfortunately for soap film it isn’t nearly as photogenic as slime mold, all we get are boring looking pictures, but the underlying idea is still fascinating
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If you understand things best when they're formatted as a musical, this video is for you. It teaches the essentials of PostgreSQL, Riak, HBase, MongoDB, CouchDB, Neo4J and Redis in the style of My Fair Lady. And for a change, it's very SFW.
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It's HighScalability Time: * 21TB : Tumblr relational data * Quotable Quotes: * @ajbaird: Scalability is not a "feature" tacked on at the end development. * @h_ingo: I like Doron's comparison: Build a MySQL scale-out cluster instead, then buy 2 Ferrari's with the money saved :-)
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In his blog post, Scaling WSO2 Stratos, Srinath Perera explains the scaling architecture of the WSO2 Stratos Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure. It is explained as a series of solutions where every solution adds a new concept to solve a specific problem found in the earlier solution. Overall, WSO2
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In Secrets to Lightning Fast Mobile Design, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger shares three strategies Instagram uses to outsmart high latency mobile networks and make mobile apps feel faster than they really are, which helped Instagram reach 12 million users in 12 months: * The motivation: "mobile experiences fill gaps while
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Benjamin Erb (@b_erb) from Ulm University recently published his diploma thesis on "Concurrent Programming for Scalable Web Architectures". The thesis provides a comprehensive survey on different concepts and techniques of concurrency inside web architectures, including web servers, application logic and storage backends. It incorporates research publications, hands-on
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Who's Hiring? * Torbit is hiring! Care about performance? Care about making the internet faster and better? At Torbit we use lots of Golang, Node.js, JavaScript and PHP to solve big challenges. Fun and Informative Events * GigaSpaces Upcoming Events: webinar on Transactional Cross-Site Data Replication, CloudCamp lightning talk,
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Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE#1354 Emeritus) is Chief Technology Advisor at NIL Data Communications, author of numerous webinars and advanced networking books, and a prolific blogger. He’s focusing on data center and cloud networking, network virtualization, and scalable application design. OpenFlow is an interesting emerging networking technology appearing seemingly out