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Sponsored Post: Dow Jones, Spotify, Evernote, Surge, Rackspace, Amazon, Booking, aiCache, Aerospike, Percona, ScaleOut, New Relic, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7
Who's Hiring? Amazing things are happening at Dow Jones – help build the next generation News and Media platforms that serve the best journalism in the world. High-impact, passionate, and driven technologists thrive in our environment, building platforms that deliver trusted content that enlightens and inspires millions around the world. Show More Summary
The Secret to 10 Million Concurrent Connections -The Kernel is the Problem, Not the Solution
Now that we have the C10K concurrent connection problem licked, how do we level up and support 10 million concurrent connections? Impossible you say. Nope, systems right now are delivering 10 million concurrent connections using techniques...Show More Summary
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 3, 2013
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
(Giant Hurricane on Saturn, here's one in New Orleans)
1,966,080 cores: Time Warp synchronization protocol using up to 7.8M MPI tasks on 1,966,080 cores of the {Sequoia} Blue Gene/Q supercomputer system. Show More Summary
Sponsored Post: Spotify, Evernote, Surge, Rackspace, Simple, Amazon, Booking, aiCache, Aerospike, Percona, ScaleOut, New Relic, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7
Who's Hiring? Want to build scalable systems that power the world's largest music streaming service? Spotify is looking for engineers for our backend infrastructure team. Apply now. At Evernote our vision is to help the world remember everything. Show More Summary
A great day! MySQL Sandbox and Continuent get a MySQL Community Award
It was a busy day at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013. After the regular sessions, there were the traditional MySQL Community Awards, and two entities close to me were among the winners. My company, Continuent won the ward...Show More Summary
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 12, 2013
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
(Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings)
877,000 TPS: Erlang and VoltDB.
Quotable Quotes:
Hendrik Volkmer: Complexity + Scale => Reduced Reliability + Increased Chance of catastrophic failures
@TheRealHirsty:...Show More Summary
Khan Academy Checkbook Scaling to 6 Million Users a Month on GAE
Khan Academy is a non profit company started by Salman Khan with the Big Hairy Audacious Goal of providing a free, world class education to anyone, anywhere, anytime. That’s a lot of knowledge. Having long been inspired and captivated by the Khan Academy, I was really curious to know how they plan to do it. Show More Summary
If Your System was a Symphony it Might Sound Like This...
I am in no way a music expert, but when I listen to Symphony No. 4 by Charles Ives, I imagine it's what a complex software/hardware system might sound like if we could hear its inner workings. Ives uses a lot of riotously competing rhythms in this work. Show More Summary
Better Browser Caching is More Important than No Javascript or Fast Networks for HTTP Performance
Performance guru Steve Souders gave his keynote presentation, Cache is King! (slides), at the HTML5DevCon, besides being an extremely clear explanation of how caching works on the Internet and how to optimize your use of HTTP to getShow More Summary
The Story of How Turning Disk Into a Service Lead to a Deluge of Density
We usually think of the wonderful advantages of service oriented architectures as a software thing, but it also applies to hardware. In Security Now 385, that Doyen of Disk, Steve Gibson, tells the fascinating story (@ about 41:30) of...Show More Summary
Designing for Resiliency will be so 2013
A big part of engineering for a quality experience is bringing in the long tail. An improbable severe failure can ruin your experience of a site, even if your average experience is quite good. That's where building for resilience comes in. Show More Summary
Resiliency is the New Normal - A Deep Look at What It Means and How to Build It
Perhaps it is because the whole world feels as if it’s riding on the edge of a jagged knife that the idea of resilience is becoming a dominant theme across so many domains. Resilience in beings first developed when cells evolved a way of maintaining inner order through homeostatic (stability through constancy) mechanisms. Show More Summary
Gone Fishin': 10 Ways to Take your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose
This is the post that got me kicked off my original shared hosting service and prompted the move to SquareSpace. I couldn't figure out why so many people were reading this article. But they kept on coming. The site went down and I was told to vamoose. Show More Summary
Spanner - It's About Programmers Building Apps Using SQL Semantics at NoSQL Scale
A lot of people seem to passionately dislike the term NewSQL, or pretty much any newly coined term for that matter, but after watching Alex Lloyd, Senior Staff Software Engineer Google, give a great talk on Building Spanner, that’s the...Show More Summary
Optimising Web Servers
I was lucky enough to attend PyCon-AU recently and one talk in particular highlighted the process of web server optimisation. Graham Dumpleton’s add-in talk Web Server Bottlenecks And Performance Tuning available on YouTube (with the majority of PyCon-AU talks) The first big note at the beginning is that the majority of the delay in user’s perception of a [...]
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31, 2012
It's HighScalability Time:
LHC compute jobs: use 1.5 CPU millennia every 3 days; Obama helps load test Reddit: 4.3 million page views
Quotable Quotes:
@secastro: Want to see nearly a terabyte of memory?
@DZone: Apache Projects are the Justice League of Scalability
Apple And Google Might Be Negotiating Patents. Show More Summary
Economies of Scale in the Datacenter: Gmail is 100x Cheaper to Run than Your Own Server
Urs Hoelzle, infrastructure guru and SVP at Google, made a really interesting statement about the economics of scale in the datacenter:
We’ve shown that when you run a large application in the datacenter, like Gmail, you can, compared...Show More Summary
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3, 2012
It's HighScalability Time:
Quotable Quotes:
Ross Tur: the tricks you learned to make things big are not the same tricks you can apply to make things infinite.
@gclaramunt: Son, I'm getting old, but let me tell you a secret: programming is hard, and high scalability and concurrent programming... Show More Summary
Vertical Scaling Ascendant - How are SSDs Changing Architectures?
With Amazon announcing new High I/O 2TB SSD instances the age of SSD has almost arrived. I say almost because the $27K a year price tag for the hi1.4xlarge on demand instance type is outside the budget of many. Yet even at the full on...Show More Summary
C is for Compute - Google Compute Engine (GCE)
After poking around the Google Compute Engine (GCE) documentation I some trouble creating a mental model of how GCE works. Is it like AWS, GAE, Rackspace, just what is it? After watching Google I/O 2012 - Introducing Google Compute Engine...Show More Summary
