Blog Profile / High Scalability
| URL : | http://highscalability.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Programming / Database Development | |
| Posts on Regator: | 451 | |
| Posts / Week: | 4 | |
| Archived Since: | April 19, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Paper: MegaPipe: A New Programming Interface for Scalable Network I/O
The paper MegaPipe: A New Programming Interface for Scalable Network I/O (video, slides) hits the common theme that if you want to go faster you need a better car design, not just a better driver. So that's why the authors started with...Show More Summary
Scaling Mailbox - From 0 to One Million Users in 6 Weeks and 100 Million Messages Per Day
You know your product is doing well when most of your early blog posts deal with the status of the waiting list of hundreds of thousands of users eagerly waiting to download your product. That's the enviable position Mailbox, a freeShow More Summary
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 14, 2013
(Steve Gibson on Security Now with a plausible analysis of the tech behind PRISM)
27 billion: WhatsApp messages per day
Quotable Quotes:
Richard Feinman: If Bill Gates walks into a bar, on average, everybody in the bar is a millionaire.
@giltene: Financial Programmers get paid by the CPU cycle. Show More Summary
Busting 4 Modern Hardware Myths - Are Memory, HDDs, and SSDs Really Random Access?
"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...Show More Summary
Sponsored Post: Apple, Two Sigma, Cendea, RAMP, Blurocket, Incapsula, Dow Jones, Surge, Rackspace, aiCache, Aerospike, Percona, ScaleOut, New Relic, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7
Who's Hiring? An exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to join Apple's Messaging Services team. We build the cloud systems that power some of the busiest applications in the world. You'll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of technologies, developing the server software that is driving the future of messaging and mobile services. Show More Summary
The 10 Deadly Sins Against Scalability
In the moral realm there may be 7 deadly sins, but scalability maven Sean Hull has come up 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:
Slow Disk I/O – RAID 5 – Multi-tenant EBS. Show More Summary
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 7, 2013
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
(Ever feel like everyone has already climbed your Everest?)
Trillion Particles, 120,000 cores, and 350 TBs: Lessons Learned From a Hero I/O Run on Hopper
Quotable Quotes:
@PenLlawen: @spolsky In my time as a scalability engineer, I’ve seen plenty of cases where optimisation was left too late. Show More Summary
Paper: Memory Barriers: a Hardware View for Software Hackers
It's not often you get so enthusiastic a recommendation for a paper as Sergio Bossa gives Memory Barriers: a Hardware View for Software Hackers: If you only want to read one piece about CPUs architecture, cache coherency and memory barriers, make it this one.
It is a clear and well written article. Show More Summary
A Simple 6 Step Transition Guide for Moving Away from X to AWS
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's dispose of why Soundslice left Heroku. Show More Summary
GOV.UK - Not Your Father's Stack
I'm not sure what I was expecting the stack GOV.UK used at launch to look like. Maybe some messenger owls and lots of cobwebs? But not so at all. So much not so I thought any organization looking at their own stack for ideas could learn something from the considered choices of others.
The diversity of technologies used was surprising. Show More Summary
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 31, 2013
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
(resource consumption scales sub-linearly with population; economic output scales super-linearly)
4PB: Ancestry.com's House of Us
Quotable Quotes:
@kellabyte: XBOX Live scaling up from 15,000 servers to 300,000 servers. That's some scale right there.
@giuseppegurgone: [...]Show More Summary
Google Finds NUMA Up to 20% Slower for Gmail and Websearch
When you have a large population of servers you have both the opportunity and the incentive to perform interesting studies. Google in Optimizing Google’s Warehouse Scale Computers: The NUMA Experience conducted such a study taking a look at how jobs run on clusters of machines using a NUMA architecture. Show More Summary
Amazon: Creating a Customer Utopia One Culture Hack at a Time
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...Show More Summary
Sponsored Post: Blurocket, Incapsula, Dow Jones, Surge, Rackspace, Amazon, Booking, aiCache, Aerospike, Percona, ScaleOut, New Relic, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7
Who's Hiring? Blurocket is looking for smart and fun people to build its next generation ecommerce platform. If creating scalable services is in your DNA, let us know! (Salary $250k+). Apply over at StackOverflow. Amazing things areShow More Summary
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 24, 2013
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
(Scaling the Mighty Redwood photograph by Michael Nichols for NatGEO)
~20K : Netflix AWS instances; 100 million hours per minute: Youtube video upload;
Quotable Quotes:
@sw17ch: Computer Science is thinking about thinking. Show More Summary
Paper: Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems
Distributed transactions are costly because they use agreement protocols. Calvin says, surprisingly, that using a deterministic database allows you to avoid the use of agreement protocols. The approach is to use a deterministic transaction...Show More Summary
Strategy: Stop Using Linked-Lists
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...Show More Summary
The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars
It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of money. A coincidence? You be the judge.
Just what is Yahoo buying?Show More Summary
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 17, 2013
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
(Earth sized solar flare, some more flair)
Google I/O to world: Just try to keep up with us. You can't. But go ahead and try. Nah na na na nah...
17 billion: Google Cloud Messaging messages per day with...Show More Summary
Paper: Warp: Multi-Key Transactions for Key-Value Stores
Looks like an interesting take on "a completely asynchronous, low-latency transaction management protocol, in line with the fully distributed NoSQL architecture."
Warp: Multi-Key Transactions for Key-Value Stores overview:
Implementing ACID transactions has been a longstanding challenge for NoSQL systems. Show More Summary