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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?
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This is the second guest post (part 1, part 3) 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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There has been an update on Pinterest: Pinterest growth driven by Amazon cloud scalability since our last post: A Short on the Pinterest Stack for Handling 3+ Million Users. With Pinterest we see a story very similar to that of Instagram. Huge growth, lots of users, lots of data, with
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This is a guest post (part 2, part 3) by Greg Lindahl, CTO of blekko, the spam free search engine that had over 3.5 million unique visitors in March. Greg Lindahl was Founder and Distinguished Engineer at PathScale, at which he was the architect of the InfiniPath low-latency InfiniBand
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The fascination over Instagram continues and fortunately we have several new streams of information to feed the insanity. So consider this article an update to The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars, based primarily on Scaling Instagram, a slide deck for an AirBnB tech talk given by
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Update: Here's the video of the talk. Erick Pickup, lead developer at YouPorn.com, presented their architecture in a talk titled Building a Website To Scale given at the ConFoo conference. As you might expect, YouPorn is a beast, streaming three full DVDs of video every second, handing
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If you started out building a dating site and instead ended up building a video sharing site (YouTube) that handles 4 billion views a day, then it’s just possible you learned something along the way. And indeed, Mike Solomon, one of the original engineers at YouTube, did learn a
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This is a guest post by Siddharth Anand, a senior member of LinkedIn's Distributed Data Systems team. Over the past 3 years, I've had the good fortune to work with many emerging NoSQL products in the context of supporting the needs of a high-traffic, customer facing
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This is a guest post by Alberto Lopez Toledo, PHD, CTO of Pixable, and Julio Viera, VP of Engineering at Pixable. Pixable aggregates photos from across your different social networks and finds the best ones so you never miss an important moment. That means currently processing the metadata of more
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After the filesystem and simple library packages like dbm, Berkeley DB was the original luxury embedded database widely used by applications as their core database engine. NoSQL before NoSQL was cool. The hidden secret making complex applications sing. If you want to dispense with all the network overhead of a
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Eric Pickup from Youporn.com posted on a news group that Youporn is now 100% Redis based and will soon be revealing more about their architecture at the ConFoo conference. Some stunning, but not surprising numbers were revealed: * 100 million page views per day * A cluster of Redis slaves are
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Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra shared a bit about their stack on Quora: * Python + heavily-modified Django at the application layer * Tornado and (very selectively) node.js as web-servers. * Memcached and membase / redis for object- and logical-caching, respectively. * RabbitMQ as a message queue. * Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish for static-delivery and load-balancing. * Persistent