Sponsored Post: Spotify, Aerospike, Exoscale, Host Color, Scalyr, Gusto, LaunchDarkly, VividCortex, MemSQL, InMemory.Net, Zohocorp

Who's Hiring? Spotify is looking for individuals passionate in infrastructure to join... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 26th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Pixar render farm in 1995 is half of an iPhone ( @B... | Continue reading


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The Always On Architecture - Moving Beyond Legacy Disaster Recovery

Failover does not cut it anymore. You need an ALWAYS ON architecture with multiple data center... | Continue reading


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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 19th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Modern art? Nope. Pancreatic cancer revealed by fluorescent... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: Zohocorp, Exoscale, Host Color, Cassandra Summit, Scalyr, Gusto, LaunchDarkly, Aerospike, VividCortex, MemSQL, AiScaler, InMemory.Net

Who's Hiring? IT Security Engineering . At Gusto we are on a mission to create a worl... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

How PayPal Scaled to Billions of Transactions Daily Using Just 8VMs

How did Paypal take a billion hits a day system that might traditionally run on a 100s of VMs a... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 12th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The big middle finger to the Olympic Committee. They pu... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

10 Gameday Failure Testing Scenarios from Obama for America

I have dozens if not hundreds of half finished articles and snippets of ideas in the haunted ho... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 5th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: What does a 107 football field long battery building G... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Is build back? The Fall of the General Purpose CPU

There's a meme out there that hardware is dead. Maybe not. Hardware is becoming more specialized a... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: Exoscale, Host Color, Cassandra Summit, Scalyr, Gusto, LaunchDarkly, Aerospike, VividCortex, MemSQL, AiScaler, InMemory.Net

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@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

How to Setup a Highly Available Multi-AZ Cassandra Cluster on AWS EC2

This is a guest post by Alessandro Pieri, Software Architect at Stream . Try out this 5 minu... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 29th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Facial tats to disrupt big brother surveillance systems may a... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Economics May Drive Serverless

We've been following an increasing ephemerality curve to get more and more utilization out of o... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 22nd, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's not too late London. There's still time to make this happ... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Building Highly Scalable V6 Only Cloud Hosting

This is a guest repost by Donatas Abraitis , Lead Systems Engineer at at Hostinger Internationa... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: Cassandra Summit, Scalyr, Gusto, LaunchDarkly, Awake Networks, Aerospike, VividCortex, MemSQL, AiScaler, InMemory.Net

Who's Hiring? IT Security Engineering . At Gusto we are on a mission to create a worl... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

How Does Google do Planet-Scale Engineering for a Planet-Scale Infrastructure?

How does Google keep all its services up and running? They almost never seem to fail. If you... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 15th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: That little smudge on Jupiter is North America ( size comparis... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Why Amazon Retail Went to a Service Oriented Architecture

When Lee Atchison arrived at Amazon, Amazon was in the process of moving from a large monolithi... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Vertical Scaling Works for Bits and Bites

This is just to delicious a parallel to pass up. Here we have Google building a new four story ... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 8th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Juno : 165,000mph, 1.7 billion miles, missed orbit by 10 miles... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Machine Learning Driven Programming: A New Programming for a New World

If Google were created from scratch today, much of it would be learned, not coded. Around 10... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: Cassandra Summit, Gusto, LaunchDarkly, Awake Networks, Kinsta, Aerospike, InMemory.Net, VividCortex, MemSQL, Scalyr, AiScaler, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

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@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 1st, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: If you can't explain it with Legos then you don't really unders... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Scaling Hotjar's Architecture: 9 Lessons Learned

Hotjar offers free website analytics so they have a challenging mission: handle hundreds of milli... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

How Facebook Live Streams to 800,000 Simultaneous Viewers

Fewer companies know how to build world spanning distributed services than there are countries w... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 24th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: A complete and accurate demonstration of the internals of a sof... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

The Technology Behind Apple Photos and the Future of Deep Learning and Privacy

There’s a war between two visions of how the ubiquitous AI assisted future will be re... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 17th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: You've seen the Netflix Death Star microservices map . Here's ... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

The Image Optimization Technology that Serves Millions of Requests Per Day

This article will touch upon how Kraken.io built and scaled an image optimization platform whic... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: Gusto, Awake Networks, Spotify, Telenor Digital, Kinsta, Aerospike, InMemory.Net, VividCortex, MemSQL, Scalyr, AiScaler, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

Who's Hiring? IT Security Engineering . At Gusto we are on a mission to create a worl... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: Spotify, Telenor Digital, Kinsta, Aerospike, InMemory.Net, VividCortex, MemSQL, Scalyr, AiScaler, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

Who's Hiring? Site Reliability Engineer Manager . We at Spotify are looking for an en... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Performance and Scaling in Enterprise Systems

This is a guest post from Vlad Mihalcea the author of the High-Performance Java Persistence book, ... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 6th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Who wants in on the over? We are not alone if the probability ... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Gone Fishin'

Well, not exactly Fishin', but I'll be on a month long vacation starting today. I won't be posting... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 29th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Universe in one image ( Pablo Budassi ). Imagine an ancient... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

How Walmart Canada’s responsive redesign boosted conversions by 20%: a case Study

With conversion optimization on the rise, it is a great idea to look into case studies which he... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

The Platform Advantage of Amazon, Facebook, and Google

Where’s the mag­ic? [Amazon] The databas­ing and stream­ing... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: Aerospike, TrueSight Pulse, Redis Labs, InMemory.Net, VividCortex, MemSQL, Scalyr, AiScaler, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

Who's Hiring? Software Engineer (DevOps) . You are one of those rare engineers who loves to... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

The Joy of Deploying Apache Storm on Docker Swarm

This is a guest repost from Baqend Tech on deploying and redeploying an Apache Storm cluster o... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 22nd, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: A perfect 10. Really stuck that landing. Nadia Comaneci approve... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

How Twitter Handles 3,000 Images Per Second

Today Twitter is creating and persisting 3,000 (200 GB) images per second. Even better, in 2015... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Hadoop and Salesforce Integration: the Ultimate Successful Database Merger

The emergence and continued success of Hadoop has revolutionized the management of big data. Th... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 15th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time: What happens when Beyoncé meets eCommerce? Ring the... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

10 Stack Benchmarking DOs and DON'Ts

An interesting question came up on the mechanical-sympathy list about how to best benchmark a... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

Sponsored Post: TechSummit, Netflix, Aerospike, TrueSight Pulse, Redis Labs, InMemory.Net, VividCortex, MemSQL, Scalyr, AiScaler, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

Who's Hiring? Software Engineer (DevOps) . You are one of those rare engineers who loves to... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago

The Gig Economy Breaks Social Security

With the tax deadline looming in the US and the future of the gig economy as the engine of scal... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 8 years ago