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Wix operates websites in the long tale. As a HTML5 based WYSIWYG web publishing platform, they have created over 54 million websites, most of which receive under 100 page views per day. So traditional caching strategies don’t apply, yet it only takes four web servers to handle all the
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How would you build a chat service that needed to handle 7.5 million concurrent players, 27 million daily players, 11K messages per second, and 1 billion events per server, per day? What could generate so much traffic? A game of course. League of Legends. League of Legends is a
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This is a guest repost by Zoli Kahan from Clay.io. This is the first post in my new series 10x, where I share my experiences and how we do things at Clay.io to develop at scale with a small team. If you find these things interesting, we'
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Is flat design just another pretty face or is it a huge performance hack cloaked as a UI revolution? It turns out flat design is a stone cold performance win. This and more is expertly explained by Tyler Kieft, Engineer at Instagram, in a crisp and content filled talk he
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Three baseball umpires were sitting around a bar, talking about how they make calls on each pitch: First umpire: Some are balls and some are strikes, and I call them as they are. Second umpire: Some are balls and some are strikes, and I call them as I see '
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Yao Yue has worked on Twitter’s Cache team since 2010. She recently gave a really great talk: Scaling Redis at Twitter. It’s about Redis of course, but it's not just about Redis. Yao has worked at Twitter for a few years. She's seen some
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This is a guest repost by Steve Robbins, Chief Architect at MixRadio. At MixRadio, we offer a free music streaming service that learns from listening habits to deliver people a personalised radio station, at the single touch of a button. MixRadio marries simplicity with an incredible level of personalization, for
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This Case Study is a guest post written by Antoni Orfin, Co-Founder and Software Architect at Octivi. In the post I'll show you the way we developed quite simple architecture based on HAProxy, PHP, Redis and MySQL that seamlessly handles approx 1 billion requests every week. There’ll
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This is a guest post by Michael Schenck, SRE Staff Engineer at Tumblr. At Tumblr, blogs (or Tumblelog) are one of our most highly trafficked faces on the internet. One of the most convenient aspects of tumblelogs is their highly cacheable nature, which is fantastic because of the high views/
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The folks at Stack Overflow remain incredibly open about what they are doing and why. So it’s time for another update. What has Stack Overflow been up to? The network of sites that make up StackExchange, which includes StackOverflow, is now ranked 54th for traffic in the world; they
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Have you ever wondered how bitly makes money? A URL shortener can’t be that hard to write, right? Sean O'Connor, Lead Application Developer at bitly, answers the how can bitly possibly make money question immediately in a talk he gave on bitly at the Bacon conference. Writing
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This is a guest post by Elizabeth Osterloh and Tobias Wilke of cloudControl. Startups face very different issues than big companies when they build software. Larger companies develop projects over much longer time frames and often have entire IT-departments to support them in creating customized architecture. It’s an entirely