Hi everyone, First, I’d like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported Highscalability over the years. We’ve grown together through some interesting times. Massive changes have occurred in how systems are built, and my goal has always been to help people learn how to build th … | Continue reading
This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly a million c … | Continue reading
Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We’ve been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here are four things we learned … | Continue reading
You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture. The original article was published on systemdesign.one website. What Is Gossip Protocol? The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]: … | Continue reading
This is a guest article by NK. You can view the original article Consistent hashing explained on systemdesign.one website. How does consistent hashing work? At a high level, consistent hashing performs the following operations: The output of the hash function is placed on a vir … | Continue reading
DALL-E picture generated from the answer. I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed. Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contes … | Continue reading
Never fear, HighScalability is here! 1958: An engineer wiring an early IBM computer 2021: An engineer wiring an early IBM quantum computer. @enclanglement My Stuff: I'm proud to announce a completely updated and expanded version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10! This version … | Continue reading
Rick Reed in an upcoming talk in March titled That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the next ... | Continue reading
There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base pla … | Continue reading
I've been working hard on a completely updated version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 and I'm happy to announce it's ready! You can buy version 2.0 at: https://www.amazon.com/Explain-Cloud-Like-Im-10-ebook/dp/B0765C4SNR. If you've already bought, Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 … | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring i … | Continue reading
Never fear, HighScalability is here! Every cell a universe. Most detailed image of a human cell to date. @microscopicture Other images considered: one byte of RAM in 1946; visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes; Cloudflare using lava lamps to generate cryptographic keys; 5MB … | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring i … | Continue reading
In NoSQL: Past, Present, Future Eric Brewer has a particularly fine section on explaining the o... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring i … | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes , who did engineery things for Google and is now doing e... | Continue reading
Jeremy Edberg , the first paid employee at reddit, teaches us a lot about how to create a succe... | Continue reading
Update 8 : The Cost of Latency by James Hamilton. James summarizing some latency info from Stev... | Continue reading
This is a guest repost by Ron Pressler, the founder and CEO of Parallel Universe , a Y Combinator ... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to jo... | Continue reading
Never fear, HighScalability is here! Think your software diagram is complex? This is a single c... | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya . Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Mac... | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya . Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Mac... | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya . Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Mac... | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya . Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Mac... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to jo... | Continue reading
Today I have the pleasure of announcing my new app— Max reHIT Workout —o... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to jo... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to jo... | Continue reading
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoi... | Continue reading
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoi... | Continue reading
Hey, HighScalability is here again! The circulatory system of the internet. @tylermorganwall ... | Continue reading
Hey, HighScalability is here again! The circulatory system of the internet. @tylermorganwall ... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to jo... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to jo... | Continue reading
Toy solutions solving Twitter’s “problems” are a favorite scalabi... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to jo... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to jo... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting ... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting ... | Continue reading
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoin... | Continue reading
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoin... | Continue reading
Facebook gave a MySQL Tech Talk where they talked about many things MySQL, but one of the more... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting ... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting ... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting ... | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting ... | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time! Only listen if you want a quantum earworm for the rest of the ... | Continue reading