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This is guest post by Baron Schwartz, Founder & CEO of VividCortex, the first unified suite of performance management tools specifically designed for today's large-scale, polyglot persistence tier. VividCortex is a cloud-hosted SaaS platform for database performance management. Our customers install agents that measure the work their servers
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This is a guest post by Oleksiy Kovyrin, Head of Technical Operations at Swiftype. Swiftype currently powers search on over 100,000 websites and serves more than 1 billion queries every month. When Matt and Quin founded Swiftype in 2012, they chose to build the company’s infrastructure using Amazon
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This is a guest post from AppLovin's VP of engineering, Basil Shikin, on the infrastructure of its mobile marketing platform. Major brands like Uber, Disney, Yelp and Hotels.com use AppLovin's mobile marketing platform. It processes 30 billion requests a day and 60 terabytes of data
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Guest post by Julien Lemoine, co-founder & CTO of Algolia, a developer friendly search as a service API. Algolia started in 2012 as an offline search engine SDK for mobile. At this time we had no idea that within two years we would have built a worldwide distributed search network.
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This is a guest repost by Rinat Abdullin, who worked on HappyPancake, the largest free dating site in Sweden. Initially written in ASP.NET and MS SQL Database server, it eventually became overly complex and expensive to scale. This is the last post in a nearly two year long series
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The team at PAPER estimated their article (NSFW) containing pictures of a very naked Kim Kardashian would quickly receive over 100 million page views. The very definition of bursty viral driven traffic. As a comparison in 2013 it was estimated Google processed over 500 million searches a day. So a
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This is guest post by Nerijus Bendžiūnas and Tomas Varaneckas of Vinted. Vinted is a peer-to-peer marketplace to sell, buy and swap clothes. It allows members to communicate directly and has the features of a social networking service. Started in 2008 as a small community for Lithuanian girls, it developed
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StackExchange created a very cool performance dashboard that looks to be updated from real system metrics. Wouldn't it be fascinating if every site had a similar dashboard? The dashboard contains information like there are 560 million page views per month, 260,000 sustained connections, 34 TB data transferred
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James Hamilton, VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, and long time blogger of interesting stuff, gave an enthusiastic talk at AWS re:Invent 2014 on AWS Innovation at Scale. He’s clearly proud of the work they are doing and it shows. James shared a few eye popping stats about
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The end of Moore’s law is the best thing that’s happened to computing in the last 50 years. Moore’s law has been a tyranny of comfort. You were assured your chips would see a constant improvement. Everyone knew what was coming and when it was coming. The
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This is a guest post by Jose Romaniello, Head of Engineering, at Auth0. There is a new version of this post! Check out Auth0 Architecture - Running In Multiple Cloud Providers And Regions (2018). Auth0 provides authentication, authorization and single sign on services for apps of any type: mobile, web,
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Do we really need another messaging system? We might if it promises to move millions of messages a second, at small microsecond latencies between machines, with consistent response times, to large numbers of clients, using an innovative design. And that’s the promise of Aeron (the Celtic god of battle,