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Alexey Migutsky in 2 years with Angular has a lot to say about Angular, which I can't comment on at all, not being an Angular user. But burried in his article are some lessons for building better frameworks that obviously come from deep experience. Frameworks will always suck,
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This is a guest repost by Leandro Moreira. When we usually are interested about scalability we look for links, explanations, books, and references. This mini article links to the references I think might help you in this journey. DISCLAIMER: You don’t need to have N machines to build/test
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Performance guru Martin Thompson gave a great talk at Strangeloop: Aeron: Open-source high-performance messaging, and one of the many interesting points he made was how much performance is being lost because were aren't configuring machines properly. This point comes on the observation that "Loss, throughput, and buffer
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The idea is most jobs are small. Researchers found 82% of jobs on Facebook's cluster were less than 10 tasks. Clusters have a median utilization of under 20%. And since small jobs are particularly sensitive to stragglers the audacious solution is to proactively launch clones of a job
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This is a guest repost written by Andrew Harmel-Law on his real world experiences with Microservices. The original article can be found here. It’s reached the point where it’s even a cliche to state “there’s a lot written about Microservices these days.” But despite this, here’s
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We've learned mobile is different. In If You're Programming A Cell Phone Like A Server You're Doing It Wrong we learned programming for a mobile platform is its own specialty. In How Facebook Makes Mobile Work At Scale For All Phones, On All Screens,
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Using EBS has lots of advantages--reliability, snapshotting, resizing--but overcoming the performance problems by using Provisioned IOPS is expensive. Swrve, an integrated marketing and A/B testing and optimization platform for mobile apps, did something clever. They are using the c3.xlarge EC2 instances, that have two 40GB SSD devices per
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Scott Hanselman gives a hilarious and insightful talk in Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler, a keynote at Velocity Santa Clara 2014. The topic of his talk is an intuitive understanding of the cloud and why it's the best thing ever. At about 6:30 into the video Scott
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Alex Bordei, product manager for Bigstep’s Full Metal Cloud, in Scaling NoSQL databases: 5 tips for increasing performance, shares a nice set of lessons he's learned about how NoSQL databases scale: * Never assume linearity in scaling. Hardware prices grow exponentially as the specs increase, but not all
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Update: Instagram Improved Their App's Performance. Here's How. When you find your mobile application that ran fine in the US is slow in other countries, how do you fix it? That’s a problem Facebook talks about in a couple of enlightening videos from the @scale
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If you need a good overview of different ways to setup your web service then Mitchell Anicas has written a good article for you: 5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application. We've even included a few additional possibilities at no extra cost. 1. Everything on One Server.
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James T. Kirk's infamous gambit in Starfleet's impossible to win Kobayashi Maru test was to redefine the problem into a challenge he could beat. Interestingly, an article titled Shifts In Algorithm Design, says something like the same gambit is the modern method of solving algorithmic problems.