« Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 25th, 2014 | Main | This is why Microsoft won. And why they lost. » How is it possible that a wooden Shinto shrine built in the 7th century is still standing? The answer depends on how you answer this philosophical head scratcher: With nearly every cell in your body continually being replaced, are you still the same person? The Ise Grand Shrine ha

« Sponsored Post: Logentries, Booking, Apple, MongoDB, BlueStripe, AiScaler, Aerospike, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7 | Main | Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 31st, 2014 » Raymond Blum leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers charged with keeping Google's data secret and keeping it safe. Of course Google would never say how much data this actually is, but f

« Sponsored Post: Spokeo, Klout, Apple, NuoDB, ScaleOut, MongoDB, BlueStripe, AiScaler, Aerospike, New Relic, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7 | Main | Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 22th, 2013 » This is a guest post by Mark Travis, Founder of InfiniSQL. InfiniSQL is the specific "Infinitely Scalable RDBMS" to which the title refers. It is free software, and i

This is a guest post by Yelp's Jim Blomo. Jim manages a growing data mining team that uses Hadoop, mrjob, and oddjob to process TBs of data. Before Yelp, he built infrastructure for startups and Amazon. Check out his upcoming talk at OSCON 2013 on Building a Cloud Culture at Yelp. In Q1 2013, Yelp had 102 million unique visitors (source: Google Analytics) including approximately 10 million unique

What data structure is more sacred than the link list? If we get rid of it what silly interview questions would we use instead? But not using linked-lists is exactly what Aater Suleman recommends in Should you ever use Linked-Lists? In The Secret To 10 Million Concurrent Connections one of the important strategies is not scribbling data all over memory via pointers because following pointers incre

« Saving Cash Using Less Cache - 90% Savings in the Caching Tier | Main | Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19, 2012 » A lot of people seem to passionately dislike the term NewSQL, or pretty much any newly coined term for that matter, but after watching Alex Lloyd, Senior Staff Software Engineer Google, give a great talk on Building Spanner, that’s the term that fits Spanner best.

« Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 17, 2012 | Main | MemSQL Architecture - The Fast (MVCC, InMem, LockFree, CodeGen) and Familiar (SQL) » In MemSQL Architecture we learned one of the core strategies MemSQL uses to achieve their need for speed is lock-free skip lists. Skip lists are used to efficiently handle range queries. Making the skip-lists lock-free helps eliminate contention

« Paper: A Provably Correct Scalable Concurrent Skip List | Main | Ask HighScalability: Facing scaling issues with news feeds on Redis. Any advice? » This is an interview with MemSQL cofounder’s Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov, in which they try to answer critics by going into more depth about their technology. MemSQL ruffled a few feathers with their claim of being the fastest database in the

Hey guys - it's always awesome to see a listing of common bottlenecks, especially if you are new to some technology or environments. But it's also dangerous to use such a list as a crutch - or a replacement - to really being able to understand performance bottleneck root cause and resource utilization. http://mtomlins.blogspot.com/2012/04/bucket-full-of-bottlenecks.html Cheers, -mt Nice list, have

« Sponsored Post: Infragistics, Reality Check Network, Gigaspaces, AiCache, ElasticHosts, Logic Monitor, Attribution Modeling, New Relic, AppDynamics, CloudSigma, ManageEnine, Site24x7 | Main | Why My Slime Mold is Better than Your Hadoop Cluster » It's been a well kept secret, but you may have heard Facebook will Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion. Just what is Facebook buying? He

« Sponsored Post: aiCache, Next Big Sound, ElasticHosts, Red 5 Studios, Attribution Modeling, Logic Monitor, New Relic, AppDynamics, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7 | Main | Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 27, 2012 » There are so many architectural ideas swirling in the bit wind these days. Two of the biggest battles are cloud vs. bare metal and RAM vs. disk vs. SSD. 37signal