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How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect, gives an excellent talk on just that subject: AWS re:Invent 2015 Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users. If you are an advanced AWS user this
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This is a guest post by Marcel Panse and Sander Nagtegaal from Teletext.io. In our early Peecho days, we wrote an article explaining how to build a really scalable architecture for next to nothing, using Amazon Web Services. Auto-scaling, merciless decoupling and even automated bidding on unused server capacity
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When you look at large scale systems from Google, Twitter, eBay, and Amazon, their architecture has evolved into something similar: a set of polyglot microservices. What does it looks like when you are in the polyglot microservices end state? Randy Shoup, who worked in high level positions at both Google
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This is a guest repost from Christophe Limpalair of his interview with Max Schnur, Web Developer at Wistia. Wistia is video hosting for business. They offer video analytics like heatmaps, and they give you the ability to add calls to action, for example. I was really interested in learning how
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I noticed on Facebook during this horrible tragedy in Paris that there was some worry because not everyone had checked in using Safety Check (video). So I thought people might want to know a little more about how Safety Check works. If a friend or family member hasn't
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This is a guest repost by Chris Ueland, creator of Scale Scale, with a creative high level view of the Netflix stack. As we research and dig deeper into scaling, we keep running into Netflix. They are very public with their stories. This post is a round up that we
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This is a guest repost by Christophe Limpalair, creator of Scale Your Code. In this article, we take a look at methods used by Shopify to make their platform resilient. Not only is this interesting to read about, but it can also be practical and help you with your own
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IEEE Spectrum has a wonderful article series on Lessons From a Decade of IT Failures. It’s not your typical series in that there are very cool interactive graphs and charts based on data collected from past project failures. They are really fun to play with and I can only
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This is a guest repost from Calvin French-Owen, CTO/Co-Founder of Segment. In Segment’s early days, our infrastructure was pretty hacked together. We provisioned instances through the AWS UI, had a graveyard of unused AMIs, and configuration was implemented three different ways. As the business started taking off, we
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For a long time now stateless services have been the royal road to scalability. Nearly every treatise on scalability declares statelessness as the best practices approved method for building scalable systems. A stateless architecture is easy to scale horizontally and only requires simple round-robin load balancing. What’s not to
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Here's an interesting nugget from a wonderfully written and deeply interesting article by Roger Hodge in the New Republic: A radical experiment at Zappos to end the office workplace as we know it: Zappos's customer-facing web site has been basically frozen for the last few years
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Here's an article update: How Facebook's Safety Check Works. In a disaster there’s a raw and immediate need to know your loved ones are safe. I felt this way during 9/11. I know I’ll feel this way during the next wild fire in