…blow of what could happen in a real cyber attack. As a programmer it's the implied idea of a kind of Crises OS built on a mesh of smartphones that I found most fascinating. Not much seems to be done in this area and even the how-to of writing such applications is rarely discussed. Could be interesting.
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…Deployment at Etsy by Daniel Schauenberg. 1.49 billion page views, 4,215,169 items sold, $ 94.7 million of goods sold, 22+ million members, 800,000+ active shops. LAMMP + Monolithic App + No Branching + Frequent deployment + lots more.
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…Handlebars, Backbone, Underscore, Sinatra, Clojure, Java, Hadoop, Cascalog. Highlight: "You don't need a database, you need a [expletive deleted] cache" So that's what we did, we traded our database for a cache.
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It's back! Join the MySQL Community at the annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara , April 22-25. This year's conference features an outstanding lineup of 92 speakers delivering 112 breakout sessions over three days!
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- terrbear.org: Peeping Tom: A free (open source) site pinger
- New Relic: Next Stop: Data Week 2012
…Swans work for you : Stick to simple rules; Decentralize; Develop layered systems; Build in redundancy and overcompensation; Resist the urge to suppress randomness; Ensure everyone has skin in the game; Give higher status to practitioners rather than theoreticians.
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…cost curves and ever improving performance curves. Initial leads fade quickly and the capital costs keep rising. Sounds like there is a real software system's aspect here, so maybe that will decapitate those curves. In any case, it's great to see people developing hardware rather than staying mediocre with software. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge...
- New Relic: Five Non-Mainstream Databases for PHP Apps - Part 3
- Labnotes: 2011 is year of the Server-Side JavaScript
- RubyLearning Blog: JRuby Programming 2nd Batch: An Online Course For Beginners
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: JRuby 2010: Year In Review
- paperplanes: June Reading List
- 41 technologies: Howto: Java 7(ea) & Eclipse 3.7.1 on Mac OS X
…change into a transaction log. Except it just doesn't work.
Food trucks are the cloud of the restaurant world . Dream friendly, flexible hours, low startup costs, making good money requires selling alcohol, and you can just pack up and move whenever you want. Oh, well, maybe not. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge...
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Upcoming speaking engagements and travel
…GCE shares images across regions. Sebastian ponders what new architectures Google's feature set will encourage to flourish? Interesting was the idea that because the inter-datacenter network IO is so fast it will be possible to put read slaves in multiple datacenters, replicate in real-time.
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…premium accounts only....Prices increased... Redis suffered from memory corruption...Moved from one app server to 6...Dropped SES for Mail Gun...Hosting provider died...Bringing up PostgreSQL read slaves...DB server upgrades...Introduction of HAProxy...More app servers.
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- Ruby Inside: Ruby Weekly: A Ruby E-mail Newsletter from Ruby Inside
- Yan Pritzker: What you don't get about the iPad
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: From iPad to Xoom
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1085
- Litany Against Fear: Turning off the Firehose
- Trevor Turk: Reduce your inputs
…A non-deterministic element, an Oracle is required. Machines need to learn by making mistakes, tolerating mistakes, a learning from mistakes. Google is made up deterministic machines. We humans are in Google's loop to act as the non-deterministic signal, as Oracle Machines.
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