mncaudill + scalability   7

High Scalability - High Scalability - 7 Years of YouTube Scalability Lessons in 30 Minutes
"Systems have a tendency to self synchronize as operations line up and try to destroy themselves. Fascinating to watch."
architecture  design  python  scalability 
9 weeks ago by mncaudill
On Compressing Social Networks
"We show that some of the problems are NP-hard yet admit effective heuristics..." 

Effective heuristics are always good.
scalability  architecture  graph 
december 2010 by mncaudill
High Scalability - High Scalability - Facebook's New Real-time Messaging System: HBase to Store 135+ Billion Messages a Month
Facebook also has an extensive MySQL infrastructure, but they found performance suffered as data set and indexes grew larger. And they could have built their own, but they chose HBase.
database  scalability  architecture 
november 2010 by mncaudill
Scalable computer programming languages
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.

-- Alan Perlis
programming  lisp  ocaml  software  python  scalability  languages 
october 2009 by mncaudill
Talks [ on iamcal.com ]
Speaking respository of a former flickr engineer, Cal Henderson. Lots of information about PHP and scaling, obviously.
flickr  scalability  architecture  php  webdev 
april 2009 by mncaudill

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