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Reddit: Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made Scaling to 1 Billion Pageviews a Month 26 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Jeremy Edberg, the first paid employee at reddit, teaches us a lot about how to create a successful social site in a really good talk he gave at the RAMP conference. Watch it here at Scaling Reddit fr...
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 23, 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Parkour is to terrain as programming is to frameworks) 5x: AWS vs combined size of other cloud vendors; Every Second on The Internet: Why we need so many servers. Q...
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second edition 22 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Google has released an epic second edition of their ground breaking The Datacenter as a Computer book. It's called an introduction, but at 156 pages I would love to see what the Advanced version would...
Sponsored Post: Couchbase, Evernote, 10gen, Stackdriver, BlueStripe, Apple, Surge, Booking, Rackspace, aiCache, Aerospike, ScaleOut, New Relic, LogicM... 20 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Who's Hiring? Evernote is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in our mission to help the world remember everything. Our work environment is collaborative and relaxed, our benefits and perks are fantastic...
What can the Amazing Race to the South Pole Teach us About Startups? 19 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
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 ...
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 16, 2013 16 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Hey, it's HighScalability time: 1 trillion: edges in Facebook's search graph Quotable Quotes: Miguel de Icaza: Callbacks as our Generations' Go To Statement @kaleidic: "Haskell is a great language...
In Memoriam: Lavabit Architecture - Creating a Scalable Email Service 13 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
With Lavabit shutting down under murky circumstances, it seems fitting to repost an old (2009), yet still very good post by Ladar Levison on Lavabit's architecture. I don't know how much of this infor...
100 Curse Free Lessons from Gordon Ramsay on Building Great Software 12 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Gordon Ramsay is a world renowned chef with a surprising amount to say on software development. Well, he says it about cooking and running a restaurant, but it applies to software development too. Yo...
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 9, 2013 9 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Hey, it's HighScalability time: 25%: Percentage of North American Internet Traffic served by Google Quotable Quotes: Aristotle: We must not expect more precision than the subject-matter admits. Br...
RAFT - In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm 7 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
If like many humans you've found even Paxos Made Simple a bit difficult to understand, you might enjoy RAFT as described in In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm by Stanford's Diego Onga...
