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Now that we have the C10K concurrent connection problem licked, how do we level up and support 10 million concurrent connections? Impossible you say. Nope, systems right now are delivering 10 million concurrent connections using techniques that are as radical as they may be unfamiliar. To learn how it’s
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In NoSQL: Past, Present, Future Eric Brewer has a particularly fine section on explaining the often hard to understand ideas of BASE (Basically Available, Soft State, Eventually Consistent), ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability), CAP (Consistency Availability, Partition Tolerance), in terms of a pernicious long standing myth about the sanctity of
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This is a repost of part 1 of an interview I did for the Boundary blog. Boundary: What is Facebook’s secret sauce for managing what’s got to be the biggest Big Data project, if you will, on the Web? Hoff: From several presentations we’ve learned what Facebook
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Pinterest has been riding an exponential growth curve, doubling every month and half. They’ve gone from 0 to 10s of billions of page views a month in two years, from 2 founders and one engineer to over 40 engineers, from one little MySQL server to 180 Web Engines, 240
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In Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps Mike Maelzer paints a wonderful picture of how Avocado, a mobile app for connecting couples, evolved to handle 30x traffic within a few weeks. If you are just getting started then this is a great example to
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Khan Academy is a non profit company started by Salman Khan with the Big Hairy Audacious Goal of providing a free, world class education to anyone, anywhere, anytime. That’s a lot of knowledge. Having long been inspired and captivated by the Khan Academy, I was really curious to know
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For the last few months I've been programming a system in Go, so I'm always on the lookout for information to feed my confirmation bias. An opportunity popped up when Iron.io wrote about their experience using Go to rewrite IronWorker, their ever busy job execution
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Should you use PaaS for your next project? Often the answer is no because you want control, but here's an example from SongPop showing why the promise of PaaS is not passé. SongPop was able to autoscale to 60 million users, 1 million daily active users, deliver 17
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This is an interview with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of Duck Duck Go and general all around startup guru, on what DDG’s architecture looks like in 2012. Innovative search engine upstart DuckDuckGo had 30 million searches in February 2012 and averages over 1 million searches a day. It’s being
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This is a guest post by Gordon Worley, a Software Engineer at Korrelate, where they correlate (see what they did there) online purchases to offline purchases. Several weeks ago, we came into the office one morning to find every server alarm going off. Pixel log processing was behind by 8
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This is a guest post by Jeff Behl, VP Ops @ LogicMonitor. Jeff has been a bit herder for the last 20 years, architecting and overseeing the infrastructure for a number of SaaS based companies. Data Replication for Disaster Recovery An inevitable part of disaster recovery planning is making sure customer
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This is a guest post by Ivan de Prado and Pere Ferrera, founders of Datasalt, the company behind Pangool and Splout SQL Big Data open-source projects. The amount of payments performed using credit cards is huge. It is clear that there is inherent value in the data that can be