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In How Uber Scales Their Real-Time Market Platform one of the most intriguing hints was how Uber handles datacenter failovers using driver phones as an external distributed storage system for recovery. Now we know a lot more about how that system works from Uber's Nikunj Aggarwal and Joshua
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Reportedly Uber has grown an astonishing 38 times bigger in just four years. Now, for what I think is the first time, Matt Ranney, Chief Systems Architect at Uber, in a very interesting and detailed talk--Scaling Uber's Real-time Market Platform---tells us a lot about how Uber’s software
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I serendipitously found this fascinating reply by Richard Farley, your friendly neighborhood meter reader, in a local email list giving a rare first-hand account of how the Advanced Metering Infrastructure works in California. This is real Internet of Things territory. So if it doesn't have a typical post
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This is Part 2 of a guest post by Kris Beevers, founder and CEO, NSONE, a purveyor of a next-gen intelligent DNS and traffic management platform. Here's Part 1. Integration and functional testing is crucial Unit testing is hammered home in every modern software development class. It’s
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This is Part 1 of a guest post by Kris Beevers, founder and CEO, NSONE, a purveyor of a next-gen intelligent DNS and traffic management platform. Here's Part 2. Every tech company thinks about it: the unavoidable – in fact, enviable – challenge of scaling its applications and systems as
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This is a guest post by Olivier Paugam, SW Architect for the Autodesk Cloud. I really like this post because it shows how bits of infrastructure--Mesos, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Akka, Splunk, Librato, EC2--can be combined together to solve real problems. It's truly amazing how much can get done these
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Google with justly earned pride recently announced: Today at the 2015 Open Network Summit, we are revealing for the first time the details of five generations of our in-house network technology. From Firehose, our first in-house datacenter network, ten years ago to our latest-generation Jupiter network, we’ve increased the
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The most frequent questions we answer for developers and devops are about our architecture and how we achieve such high availability. Some of them are very skeptical about high availability with bare metal servers, while others are skeptical about how we distribute data worldwide. However, the question I prefer is
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This is aimed towards taking you through key architectural decisions which will make a social application a true next generation social product. The proposed changes addresses following attributes; a) availability b) reliability c) scalability d) performance and flexibility towards extensions (not modifications) Goals a) Ensuring that user’s content is
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The most frequent questions we answer for developers and devops are about our architecture and how we achieve such high availability. Some of them are very skeptical about high availability with bare metal servers, while others are skeptical about how we distribute data worldwide. However, the question I prefer is
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Guest post by Julien Lemoine, co-founder & CTO of Algolia, a developer friendly search as a service API. The most frequent questions we answer for developers and devops are about our architecture and how we achieve such high availability. Some of them are very skeptical about high availability with bare
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This is a guest post by dhilipsiva, Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer at Appknox. Appknox helps detect and fix security loopholes in mobile applications. Securing your app is as simple as submitting your store link. We upload your app, scan for security vulnerabilities, and report the results. What's notable