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Jun 11

The Four Meta Secrets of Scaling at Facebook #

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Aditya Agarwal, Director of Engineering at Facebook, gave an excellent Scale at Facebook talk that covers their architecture, but the talk is really more about how...

May 5

How will memristors change everything? #

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A non-random sample of my tech friends shows that not many have heard of memristors (though I do suspect vote tampering).


Apr 5

Intercloud: How Will We Scale Across Multiple Clouds? #

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In A Brief History of the Internet it was revealed that the Internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks...


Mar 10

Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra at Digg #

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The last six months have been exciting for Digg's engineering team.

Mar 3

Hot Scalability Links for March 3, 2010 #

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Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie by Dennis Forbes.

Feb 26

MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era? #

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If you look at the early days of this blog, when web scalability was still in its heady bloom of youth, many of the articles...


Feb 24

Hot Scalability Links for February 24, 2010 #

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Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King. Great interview by Alex Popescu on Twitter's thought process for switching to Cassandra.

Feb 8

How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month #

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If real farming was as comforting as it is in Zynga's mega-hit Farmville then my family would have probably never left those harsh North Dakota...


Nov 4

Damn, Which Database do I Use Now? #

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With so many database options available these days, like for the rest of life, it's natural to wonder how it all fits together.

Oct 6

10 Ways to Take your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose #

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At the Future of Web Apps conference Kevin Rose (Digg, Pownce, Wefollow) gave a cool presentation on the top 10 down and dirty ways you can grow...

Jul 15

Stack Overflow Architecture #

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Stack Overflow is a much loved programmer question and answer site written by two guys nobody has ever heard of before.

Mar 16

Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing? #

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We are on the edge of two potent technological changes: Clouds and Memory Based Architectures.

Feb 11

Product: Facebook's Cassandra - A Massive Distributed Store #

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James Hamilton has published a thorough summary of Facebook's Cassandra, another scalable key-value store for your perusal.

Dec 19

Gigaspaces curbs latency outliers with Java Real Time #

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Today, most banks have migrated their internal software development from C/C++ to the Java language because of well-known advantages in development productivity (Java Platform), robustness...

Nov 14

Paper: Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing #

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Yahoo has developed a new language called Pig Latin that fit in a sweet spot between high-level declarative querying in the spirit of SQL, and...

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