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A 360 Degree View of the Entire Netflix Stack - High Scalability -
This is a guest repost by Chris Ueland , creator of Scale Scale , with a creative hig...
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Amazon Architecture - High Scalability -
This is a wonderfully informative Amazon update based on Joachim Rohde's discovery of an interview...
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Cinchcast Architecture - Producing 1,500 Hours of Audio Every Day - High Scalability -
This is a guest post by Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy , CTO of Cinchcast and BlogTalkRadio , wher...
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DataSift Architecture: Realtime Datamining at 120,000 Tweets Per Second - High Scalability -
I remember the excitement of when Twitter first opened up their firehose. As an early adopter o...
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Distributed Storage
A High Scalability guide to choosing a data store for an application, by scale, consistency, data type and query needs.
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ESPN's Architecture at Scale - Operating at 100,000 Duh Nuh Nuhs Per Second - High Scalability -
ESPN went on air in 1978 . In those 30+ years think of the wonders we’ve seen! When I...
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Flickr Architecture - High Scalability -
Update: Flickr hits 2 Billion photos served. That's a lot of hamburgers. Flickr is both my favori...
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Google Architecture - High Scalability -
Update 2: Sorting 1 PB with MapReduce . PB is not peanut-butter-and-jelly misspelled. It's 1 petab...
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How Facebook Live Streams to 800,000 Simultaneous Viewers - High Scalability -
Fewer companies know how to build world spanning distributed services than there are countries w...
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How Twitter Handles 3,000 Images Per Second - High Scalability -
Today Twitter is creating and persisting 3,000 (200 GB) images per second. Even better, in 2015...
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How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets a Day Using MySQL - High Scalability -
Jeremy Cole , a DBA Team Lead/Database Architect at Twitter, gave a really good talk at the O'Reil...
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How Uber Scales Their Real-time Market Platform - High Scalability -
Reportedly Uber has grown an astonishing 38 times bigger in just four years . Now, for what I ...
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Instagram Architecture: 14 Million users, Terabytes of Photos, 100s of Instances, Dozens of Technologies - High Scalability -
Instagram is a free photo sharing and social networking service for your iPhone that has been ...
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Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture - High Scalability -
The future is live. The future is real-time. The future is now. That's the hype anyway. And as ...
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Lessons Learned from Scaling Uber to 2000 Engineers, 1000 Services, and 8000 Git repositories - High Scalability -
For a visual of the growth Uber is experiencing take a look at the first few seconds of the abov...
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MemSQL Architecture - The Fast (MVCC, InMem, LockFree, CodeGen) And Familiar (SQL)
This is an interview with MemSQL cofounder’s Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov , in whi...
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Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
This article is a chapter from my new book Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 . The first releas...
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Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB of Data - High Scalability -
There has been an update on Pinterest: Pinterest growth driven by Amazon cloud scalability si...
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Playfish's Social Gaming Architecture - 50 Million Monthly Users and Growing - High Scalability -
Ten million players a day and over fifty million players a month interact socially with friends us...
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PlentyOfFish Architecture - High Scalability -
Update 5 : PlentyOfFish Update - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month Update 4 : Je...
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Salesforce Architecture - How they Handle 1.3 Billion Transactions a Day - High Scalability -
This is a guest post written by Claude Johnson , a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at salesforce...
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Scaling Mailbox - From 0 to One Million Users in 6 Weeks and 100 Million Messages Per Day - High Scalability -
You know your product is doing well when most of your early blog posts deal with the status of ...
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Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years - High Scalability -
Pinterest has been riding an exponential growth curve, doubling every month and half. They&...
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Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster - High Scalability -
Update 6: Some interesting changes from Twitter's Evan Weaver : everything in RAM now, database is...
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