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This article is a chapter from my new book Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The first release was written specifically for cloud newbies. I've made some updates and added a few chapters—Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play? and What is Cloud Computing?—that
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This is a guest post by Jake Lumetta, co-founder and CEO of ButterCMS. ButterCMS lets developers add a content management system to any website in minutes. Our business requires us to deliver near-100% uptime for our API, but after multiple outages that nearly crippled our business, we became obsessed with
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Enterprises won't move to the cloud. If they do, it's tantamount to admitting your IT group sucks. That has been the common wisdom. Morningstar, an investment research provider, is moving to the cloud and they're about as enterprisey as it gets. And they don&
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This is a guest repost by G Gordon Worley III, Head of Site Reliability Engineering at AdStage. When I joined AdStage in the Fall of 2013 we were already running on Heroku. It was the obvious choice: super easy to get started with, less expensive than full-sized virtual servers, and
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I programmed a thing. It’s called Probot. Probot is a quick and easy way to get high quality answers to your accounting and tax questions. Probot will find a real live expert to answer your question and handle all the details. You can get your questions answered over Facebook
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This is a guest post by Urban Airship. Contributors: Adam Lowry, Sean Moran, Mike Herrick, Lisa Orr, Todd Johnson, Christine Ciandrini, Ashish Warty, Nick Adlard, Mele Sax-Barnett, Niall Kelly, Graham Forest, and Gavin McQuillan Urban Airship is trusted by thousands of businesses looking to grow with mobile. Urban Airship is
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This is a guest post by Siddharth Ram – Chief Architect, Small Business. Siddharth_ram@intuit.com. The QuickBooks ecosystem is the largest small business SaaS product. The QuickBooks Platform supports bookkeeping, payroll and payment solutions for small businesses, their customers and accountants worldwide. Since QuickBooks is also a compliance &
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For a visual of the growth Uber is experiencing take a look at the first few seconds of the above video. It will start in the right place. It's from an amazing talk given by Matt Ranney, Chief Systems Architect at Uber and Co-founder of Voxer: What I
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If you are Uber and you need to store the location data that is sent out every 30 seconds by both driver and rider apps, what do you do? That’s a lot of real-time data that needs to be used in real-time. Uber’s solution is comprehensive. They built
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This is a guest post by Jason Bosco, the Dollar Shave Club’s Director of Engineering, Core Platform & Infrastructure, on the infrastructure of its ecommerce technology. With more than 3 million members, Dollar Shave Club will do over $200 million in revenue this year. Although most are familiar with
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Hey guys! In this article, I’d like to tell you a story of implementing the anti-spam system for Mail.Ru Group’s email service and share our experience of using the Tarantool database within this project: what tasks Tarantool serves, what limitations and integration issues we faced, what pitfalls
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How does Google keep all its services up and running? They almost never seem to fail. If you've ever wondered we get a wonderful peek behind the curtain in a talk given at GCP NEXT 2016 by Melissa Binde, Director, Storage SRE at Google: How Google Does Planet-Scale