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Ask HighScalability: Choose an Async App Server or Multiple Blocking Servers?

Jonathan Willis, software developer by day and superhero by night, asked an interesting question via Twitter on StackOverflow: I've been having discussions with other members of my team on the pros and cons of using an async app server such as the Play! Framework (built on Netty) versus

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Ask HS: Design and Implementation of scalable services?

We have written agents deployed/distributed across the network. Agents sends data every 15 Secs may be even 5 secs. Working on a service/system to which all agent can post data/tuples with marginal payload. Upto 5% drop rate is acceptable. Ultimately the data will be segregated and stored

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Ask HS: What is a good OLAP database choice with node.js?

This question was asked over email and I thought a larger audience might want to take a whack at it. With a business associate, I am trying to develop a financial software that handles financial reports of listed companies. We managed to create this database with all the data necessary

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Ask HS: Is Microsoft the Right Technology for a Scalable Web-based System?

This question was asked over email and I thought a larger audience might want to take a whack at it. I have a problem I’d like to have your view on. I’ve looked around a lot, and I haven’t found a definite answer. The question is this:

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Ask HS: What's Wrong with Twitter, Why Isn't One Machine Enough?

Can anyone convincingly explain why properties sporting traffic statistics that may seem in-line with with the capabilities of a single big-iron machine need so many machines in their architecture? This is a common reaction to architecture profiles on High Scalability: I could do all that on a few machines so

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Ask HighScalability: Web asset server concept - 3rd party software available?

We are serving dynamic (PHP) websites and their assets (JS/CSS/images/videos/binary downloads) via the same apache hosts. The static files are only being used as origins for CDN services used to distribute those files. Yet, in the current development-deploy pipeline, these files are checked into the same

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Ask DuckDuckGo: Is there Anything you Want to Know About DDG?

Next week I'm going to have the pleasure of interviewing Gabriel Weinberg, founder of rebel search engine DuckDuckGo. Is there anything you would like to know about DuckDuckGo that I can ask Gabe? Please contact me or comment on this thread with your deepest desires.

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Ask HighScalability: How Do I Build My MegaUpload + Itunes + YouTube Startup?

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