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Submitted for your scaling pleasure: * Twitter indexes an average of 2,200 TPS (peek is 4x that) while serving 18,000 QPS (1.6B queries per day). eBay serves 2 billion page views every day requiring more than 75 billion database requests. * Quotable Quotes: * Infrastructure is adaptation --Kenneth Wright, referencing
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Submitted for your scaling pleasure: * Good idea: Open The Index And Speed Up The Internet. SmugMug estimates 50% of their CPU is spent serving crawler robots. Having a common meta-data repository wouldn't prevent search engines from having their own special sauce. Then the problem becomes one of syncing
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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this beautiful morning: * Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms. In distributed computing systems nodes reach a quorum when deciding what to do as a group. It turns out bees also use quorum logic when deciding on where to nest! Bees do it a
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Submitted for your reading pleasure...Hi Mom!... * We don't need no stinking servers says the W3C. This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Development by W3C by Marshall Kirkpatrick. Browsers talking to directly to other browsers. Marshall is right, this could be very big. * Quotable Quotes for
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Who's Hiring? * MathWorks Looking for Multiple, Full-time Scaling Experts. Apply now: http://matlab.my/lVmunb * Gazillion Entertainment is looking for a Web Developer Generalist to work on massively multiplayer online games. Please apply here. * Edmunds.com helps people find the car that meets their every need. We’re
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Submitted for your reading pleasure on the day, deep breath, before Dr. Who invades the USA... * The Great SkyNet Day Amazon Downtime roundup: Detailed thread on Hacker News; Who is affected by EC2?, Amazon Web Services Starting to Come Back Online but Problems Persist and Questions Unfold, AWS is down:
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up. ~Argosy * We have a Qutoable Quote machine for you today: * @kevinweil:
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Who's Hiring? * Gazillion Entertainment is looking for a Web Developer Generalist to work on massively multiplayer online games. Please apply here. * Edmunds.com helps people find the car that meets their every need. We’re currently hiring talented Java Developers in the Los Angeles area. * OPOWER motivates millions
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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this tomato killing frosty morn... * Now we really know why vampires feed on blood...they are elastically acquiring more compute power. Your Next Computer May Be Made of...Blood! It's those memristors again. Ancient vamps are really just giant super computers. * Twitter
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Submitted for your reading pleasure, no foolin'... * Quotable Quotes: * @zateriosystems: thinking about scalability?, are you OK to double your capacity in one week?, a startup should be ready...ready to jump. * @sklacy: Maybe what I should have said is "Design for scalability, deploy without it." * @MikeHale: Scalability
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Who's Hiring? * OPOWER motivates millions to become more energy efficient, and we're hiring! * deviantART is looking for Infrastructure and Database Operations Engineers! * Kabam is looking for a Quantitative Analyst and a Senior Data Engineer to join the Business Intelligence group at our social gaming startup. Fun
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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this day of wind and rain... * The cloud is falling. Or at least shared networked storage as Reddit has a couple of long periods of downtime. Good write up at Why reddit was down for 6 of the last 24 hours. Upshot: Reddit is