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Please don't squeeze the HighScalability:
- Quotable quotes:
- @karmafile: "Scalability" is a much more evil word than we make it out to be
- @ostaquet: More hardware won't solve #SQL resp. time issues; proper indexing does.
- @datachick: All computing technology is the rearrangement of data. Data is the center of the universe
- @jamesurquhart: "Complexity is a characteristic of the system, not of the parts in it."
- Peter Burns talks computer nanosecond time scales as a human might experience them. Your memory == computer registers , L1 cache == papers kept close by, L2 cache == books, RAM == the library down the street, and going to disk is a 3 year odessy for data.
- Fault Tolerance in a High Volume Distributed System at Netxlix (slidedeck). Ben Christensen with another deep dive on Netflix tech. This time it's on how to support an extreme service architecture by: isolating failures, shedding load, and being resilient to failures. Their solution makes use of multi-pronged: network timeouts and retries, separate threads on per-dependency thread pools, semaphores (via a tryAcquire, not a blocking call), and circuit breakers.
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