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Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- Two Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests / Second: S3; 1.4TB/s: Titan supercomputer has world’s fastest storage; four billion hours: Netflix streaming in last 3 months; $1.2B: Google's Q1 infrastructure spend
- Quotable Quotes:
- Google: We'll track EVERY task on EVERY data center server
- Stacey Higginbotham: All in all in the last five years the world has gained 54 Tbps of new capacity.
- @seveas: Scalability 103: Hardware sucks. Software sucks. Everything *will* break, prepare for failure of any component of your system.
- bloodredsun: The long and short of it is that Cassandra is a fantastic system for write heavy situations. What it is not good at are read heavy situations where deterministic low latency is required, which is pretty much what the pinterest guys were dealing with.
- @viktorklang: "The e-mail message could not be delivered because the user's mailfolder is full." <-- EMAIL HAS BACKPRESSURE OMG
- Interesting Behind the Scenes: Airbnb Neighborhoods. Includes a description of their work flow and a detailed breakdown of their stack: Rails, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Memcached, CoffeeScript, Sass, jQuery, Handlebars, Backbone, Underscore, Sinatra, Clojure, Java, Hadoop, Cascalog. Highlight: "You don't need a database, you need a [expletive deleted] cache" So that's what we did, we traded our database for a cache.
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