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Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub Cofounder, wrote Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year in 2008. Though the lessons are still relevant, and the war stories behind each lesson are great, I can't help but wonder what a 2013 version would look like? 1. Start Early - GitHub created a
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This is a guest post by Zardosht Kasheff, Software Developer at Tokutek, a storage engine company that delivers 21st-Century capabilities to the leading open source data management platforms. As software developers, we value abstraction. The simpler the API, the more attractive it becomes. Arguably, MongoDB’s greatest strengths are its
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At the heart of every software adventure exists a journey in service of a quest. Melodramatic much? Sorry, but while wandering dazzled through Race to the End of the Earth, a fantastic exhibit at the Royal BC Museum on the 1911-1912 race to the South Pole between Norwegian explorer Roald
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Jonathan Block, CTO at RockThePost.com, a crowdfunding company, has written a nice set of tips for smaller sites on how to scale a service on EC2 using a small two person development team. Their service has a typical small scale structure: * PHP's Zend Framework 2 * Two m1.
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"It’s all a numbers game – the dirty little secret of scalable systems" Martin Thompson is a High Performance Computing Specialist with a real mission to teach programmers how to understand the innards of modern computing systems. He has many talks and classes (listed below) on caches, buffers,
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In the moral realm there may be 7 deadly sins, but scalability maven Sean Hull has come up with Five More Things Deadly to Scalability that when added to his earlier 5 Things That are Toxic to Scalability, make for a numerologically satisfying 10 sins again scalability: 1. Slow Disk
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If you just want to visit Rome and not go full on Cloud Native like Netflix, then Soundslice's Adrian Holovaty in Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup provides a simple guide for helping make your first trip a good one. First, let'
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If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will. -- Steve Jobs America as the New World has a long history of inspiring Utopian communities. Early experiments were famously religious. But there have been many others as new waves of thought have inspired people to organize and try something different.
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What data structure is more sacred than the link list? If we get rid of it what silly interview questions would we use instead? But not using linked-lists is exactly what Aater Suleman recommends in Should you ever use Linked-Lists? In The Secret To 10 Million Concurrent Connections one of
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If you are stuck drowning in too much data and too many options and are dazzled by all the possibilities of code, here's a helpful bit of advice from Airbnb's rags to riches origin story: it's okay to do things that don’t scale.
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Harish Ganesan CTO of 8KMiles has a very helpful blog, Cloud, Big Data and Mobile, where he shows a nice analytical bent which leads to a lot of practical advice and cost saving tips: 1. Use SQS Batch Requests to reduce the number of requests hitting SQS which saves costs.
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Solving problems while saving money is always a problem. In Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster they give some counter-intuitive advice by showing a big-memory server may provide better performance per dollar than a cluster: 1. For jobs where the input data is multi-terabyte or larger