Hey, it's HighScalability time:

(Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings)

• 44.6 billion - Tumblr posts; 300 Gb/s - DDoS DNS amplification attacks; 100 million - Eventbrite tickets processed.
• Quotable Quotes:
  • @tveskov: Alan Kay: “The past 30 years have been completely mundane. It’s all been scaling (of old technology) and Angry Birds” 
  • @phrawzty: OH "Complexity is accelerating. We must augment our ability to manage it." #monitorama
  • @stallent: new wave of apps that are bringing the server doing actual legit valuable work back into vogue know scaling is more than hard
  • @calvdee: Fending off a 300Gb/s DDoS attacks would constitute a feat of #highscalability 
  • @solarce: "A spider farted in Finland and screwed up my IOPS!" -- @lusis #monitorama
  • @cra: Listening to Shawn Pearce talk about scaling #git at Google with JGit... Android AOSP repos: 19.4GB, 2.5Mreq/day, 5.0TB/day #eclipsecon
  • @codemonkeyism: Sometime in the future Erlang people will realize scalability comes from async not actors and then hell freezes over.
• InfoQ in China has graciously offered to translate some of my articles into Chinese. So here's Iron.io Moved From Ruby to Go: 28 Servers Cut and Colossal Clusterf**ks Prevented in the original Chinese.


• To justify high margin devices you need user data to sync automagically between all devices a user owns, otherwise you would just leave everything on the cloud and stream it to much cheaper devices. But Apple is finding device syncing in a complex error prone world is not so simple: The promise of iCloud’s Core Data support is that it will solve all of the thorny issues of syncing a database by breaking up each change into a transaction log. Except it just doesn’t work. 


• Food trucks are the cloud of the restaurant world. Dream friendly, flexible hours, low startup costs, making good money requires selling alcohol, and you can just pack up and move whenever you want. Oh, well, maybe not.