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This is a guest post by Jon Vlachogiannis. Jon is the founder and CTO of BugSense. BugSense, is an error-reporting and quality metrics service that tracks thousand of apps every day. When mobile apps crash, BugSense helps developers pinpoint and fix the problem. The startup delivers first-class service to its
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A lot of people seem to passionately dislike the term NewSQL, or pretty much any newly coined term for that matter, but after watching Alex Lloyd, Senior Staff Software Engineer Google, give a great talk on Building Spanner, that’s the term that fits Spanner best. Spanner wraps the SQL
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This is a guest post by Ben Lowry, CEO of Playtomic. Playtomic is a game analytics service implemented in about 8000 mobile, web and downloadable games played by approximately 20 million people daily. Here's a good summary quote by Ben Lowry on Hacker News: Just over 20,000,
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This is a guest post by Jeffrey Damick, Principal Software Engineer for Neustar. Jeffrey has overseen the software architecture for UltraDNS for last two and half years as it went through substantial revitalization. UltraDNS is one the top the DNS providers, serving many top-level domains (TLDs) as well as second-level
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This is a guest post by Shawn Hsiao, Luke Massa, and Victor Luu. Shawn runs TripAdvisor’s Technical Operations team, Luke and Victor interned on his team this past summer. This post is introduced by Andy Gelfond, TripAdvisor’s head of engineering. It's been a little over a
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This is a guest post by Barry Abrahamson, Chief Systems Wrangler at Automattic, and Nginx's Coufounder Andrew Alexeev. WordPress.com serves more than 33 million sites attracting over 339 million people and 3.4 billion pages each month. Since April 2008, WordPress.com has experienced about 4.4
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This is a guest post by Peter Offringa, VP of engineering at Zoosk. Zoosk is a 50 million member romantic social network. Our members get the most rewarding experience from Zoosk when they can interact in real-time. After all, a future relationship is potentially at the other end of every
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In update to Prismatic Architecture - Using Machine Learning on Social Networks to Figure Out What You Should Read on the Web, Jason Wolfe, even in the face of deadening fatigue from long nights spent getting their iPhone app out, has gallantly agreed to talk a little more about Primatic&
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This post on Prismatic’s Architecture is adapted from an email conversation with Prismatic programmer Jason Wolfe. What should you read on the web today? Any thoroughly modern person must solve this dilemma every day, usually using some occult process to divine what’s important in their many feeds: Twitter,
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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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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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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