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Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- Quotable Quotes:
- @Carnage4Life: "Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement" - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/17.html … <= finally at the point where I get this
- @etherealmind: You can dramatically improve blog performance by blocking Amazon IP address ranges. Tells you how much information mining is occurring.
- Randy Bias: Choice is possible only when there’s architectural consistency between public and private cloud infrastructure. Those who focus only on API compatibility are either confused or intentionally misleading people. There is NO API COMPATIBILITY without architectural compatibility.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Everything that is fragile and still in existence (that is, unbroken), will be harmed more by a certain stressor of intensity X than by k times a stressor of intensity X/k, up to the point of breaking.
- First Law of Parallelism: all instructions are in parallel until acted on by a serializing force.
- Murat Demirbas takes on Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database with a helpful summary of what it is (scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database) and an insightful look into what TrueTime is good for (snapshot reads (reads in the past)).
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Sean Hull with the secret of life:
Scalability Happiness – A Quiet Query Log: In 17 years of consulting that is the single largest cause of scalability problems. Fix those queries and your problems are over. By and large, if scalability is our goal, we should work to quiet the activity in the slow query log. This is an active project for developers & DBAs. Keep it quiet and your server will run well.
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