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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this beautifully blue and sunny Friday... * @Werner: Each day #AWS adds enough computing muscle to power one whole Amazon.com circa 2000, when it was a $2.8 billion business http://wv.ly/gMr8LQ * Building servers to rule in hell. Datacenters spend a lot
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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this cold and rainy Friday... * Quotable Quotes: * CarryMillsap: You can't hardware yourself out of a performance problem you softwared yourself into. * @juokaz: schema-less databases doesn't mean data should have no structure * Scalability Porn: * 3 Months To The First Million Users,
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... * A good night's sleep is why Facebook CTO Bret Taylor says Friendfeed should have gone cloud, let others take the midnight watch, even if it costs a bit more. * James Urquhart with an information packed interview on a wide range of cloud topics:
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... * Super Bowl Prediction: Pittsburgh 27, Green Bay 24. I'll be rooting for Green Bay, but the Pittsburgh defense will eventually win the day, beating back the fleet footed, quick tossing, and sharp shooting Aaron Rodgers. Roethlisberger will make exactly 3 plays that matter,
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... * On the new year Twitter set a record with 6,939 Tweets Per Second (TPS). Cool video visualizing New Year's Eve Tweet data across the world. * Marko Rodriguez in Memoirs of a Graph Addict: Despair to Redemption tells a stirring tale of how
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... * Quotable Quotes * @hofmanndavid: Performance and scalability anxiety makes developers want to catch the flying butterflies * @tivrfoa: "Scalability solutions aren't magic. They involve partitioning, indexing and replication." Twitter engineer * Alan Perlis: Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove
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* If you missed it here's a link to my webinar and here's the slidedeck for the talk with a buch of additional slides that I didn't have a chance to talk about. The funky picture of Lincoln is classic. * Can MySQL really handle 1,
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Eating turkey all weekend and wondering what you might have missed? * James Hamilton on why “all you have learned about disks so far is probably wrong" in Availability in Globally Distributed Storage. It turns out for the same reason our financial systems melt down: black swans. The world is
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* Google – A Study In Scalability And A Little Systems Horse Sense. A nice summary by Krishna Sankar of a version of Jeff Dean's classic talk on Google Scalability given to Stanford's EE380 class. * Quotable Quotes: * @jkalucki: Getting just 100 servers to work together for the first
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So much good stuff this week... * Adrian Cockcroft Compares NoSQL Availability Models. Let's risk feeding the CAP trolls, and try to get some insight into the differences between the many NoSQL contenders. Adrian asks how each NoSQL product will add a movie to its favorites list, read it
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On a cold and rainy Fall day, a day stolen from winter rather than our usual gorgeous Indian Summers, a day not even the SF Giants winning the pennant can help warm, here are some hot links to read by a digital flame: * Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A
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* So what happened at the Surge 2010 Conference? A lot... * Cosimo Streppone with a nicely detailed day by day summary. * Conference organizer Theo Schlossnagle says: Surge. Year one. Done. Awesome. * Robert Haas with SURGE Recap * From SEOmoz we have their SurgeCon Review – our thoughts on a fabulous web scalability conference