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Scale the modern way / No brush / No lather / No rub-in / Big tube 35 cents - Drug stores / HighScalability:

  • GAE Serves 1.5 Billion Pages a Day
  • Potent quotables:
    • @kendallmiller : The code changes I'm most proud of are the ones few people will ever see - like I just tripled the scalability of our session analysis.
    • @Kellblog : Heard: "Cassandra is more a system on which you build a DBMS than a DBMS itself."
    • @DDevine_au :  Ah dammit. I'm thinking of using a  database. Down the rabbit hole I go.
  • A comprehensive guide to parallel video decoding. Emeric Grange with a sweet explanation of the decoding process. 
  • Node.js vs. Scala - "Scaling in the large". tedsuo tldrs it: in node, there is only one concurrency model.  A number of other platforms offer multiple concurrency models.  If you want access to one of those other models down the line, you will have to carve off that part of your application and rewrite it in another language. 
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