The email sent will contain a link to this article, the article title, and an article excerpt (if available). For security reasons, your IP address will also be included in the sent email.
It's HighScalability Time:
- Almost 1 Billion Users: Facebook; 30,000 connections across 94 locations: the Olympics Network; 2.5 quintillion: bytes of data created each day; 80K QPS: MemSQL.
- In some early results Zencoder found EC2 was faster than GCE in their video transcoding tests, saying Google needs larger instances with faster CPUs. Love how Google's jbeda said they would take a look at the results. +1 for competition and benchmarks. Something to keep in mind is for Google a core means: a hyperthread per virtual CPU. So that means that a n1-standard-8 instance gets 4 physical cores and 8 hyperthreads, not 8 physical cores.
- Kevin Rose recommends hiring generalists rather than developers with niche skills; don't give away your company; and thinks advisors should be investors. Founders should also probably stick around and managers shouldn't blame developers.
- Is MemSQL the world's fastest database? BS meter on high, but it is created by two former Facebook engineers, who should know their MySQL. And recall Cassandra started out of Facebook. The magic sauce of this MySQL compatible database is it operates in-memory and optimizes queries by translating SQL into C++.
- That pesky power law ruins everything: 20% of iOS applications make 97% of the revenue. Directly related to The Sparrow Problem where low software prices make it hard to build standalone software companies, which makes spirit killing buyouts the goal.
Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge...
Return to Article