Here are some of the favorite posts on HighScalability...
- All the Stuff the Internet Says on Scalability articles.
- Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10
- YouTube Architecture
- Hilarious Video: Relational Database Vs NoSQL Fanbois
- Plenty Of Fish Architecture
- Machine Learning Driven Programming: A New Programming For A New World
- Jeff Dean On Large-Scale Deep Learning At Google
- Scaling Pinterest - From 0 To 10s Of Billions Of Page Views A Month In Two Years
- Google Architecture
- The Secret Of Scaling: You Can't Linearly Scale Effort With Capacity
- Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
- Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud
- Making The Case For Building Scalable Stateful Services In The Modern Era
- How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets A Day Using MySQL
- Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster
- The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion
- Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
- How Is Software Developed At Amazon?
- How WhatsApp Grew To Nearly 500 Million Users, 11,000 Cores, And 70 Million Messages A Second
- Flickr Architecture
- A Beginner's Guide To Scaling To 11 Million+ Users On Amazon's AWS
- How Do We Explain The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of IT?
- Matt Cutts: 10 Lessons Learned From The Early Days Of Google
- Amazon Architecture
- Jeff Dean On Large-Scale Deep Learning At Google
- A Beginner's Guide To Scaling To 11 Million+ Users On Amazon's AWS
- StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews A Month, 25 Servers, And It's All About Performance
- Oculus Causes A Rift, But The Facebook Deal Will Avoid A Scaling Crisis For Virtual Reality
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale
- Stack Overflow Architecture
- How PayPal Scaled To Billions Of Transactions Daily Using Just 8VMs
- How Does Google Do Planet-Scale Engineering For A Planet-Scale Infrastructure?
- 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes
- How Facebook's Safety Check Works
- The Architecture Twitter Uses To Deal With 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, A 22 MB/S Firehose, And Send Tweets In Under 5 Seconds
- Google On Latency Tolerant Systems: Making A Predictable Whole Out Of Unpredictable Parts
- An Unorthodox Approach to Database Design : The Coming of the Shard
- Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud
- Startups Are Creating A New System Of The World For IT
- Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing?
- Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it
- How will memristors change everything?
- A 360 Degree View Of The Entire Netflix Stack
- DataSift Architecture: Realtime Datamining At 120,000 Tweets Per Second
- Useful Scalability Blogs
- Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB Of Data
- Scaling Traffic: People Pod Pool of On Demand Self Driving Robotic Cars who Automatically Refuel from Cheap Solar
- Architecting Backend For A Social Product
- Why My Slime Mold Is Better Than Your Hadoop Cluster
- VoltDB Decapitates Six SQL Urban Myths And Delivers Internet Scale OLTP In The Process
- The Canonical Cloud Architecture
- How Do You Program A Computer With 10 Terabytes Of RAM?
- Justin.Tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture
- Why Are Facebook, Digg, And Twitter So Hard To Scale?
- What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?
- How Google Invented An Amazing Datacenter Network Only They Could Create
- Playfish's Social Gaming Architecture - 50 Million Monthly Users And Growing
- The Updated Big List Of Articles On The Amazon Outage
- Using Gossip Protocols For Failure Detection, Monitoring, Messaging And Other Good Things
- The Etsy Saga: From Silos To Happy To Billions Of Pageviews A Month
- How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets A Day Using MySQL
- Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than Twitter
- Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Linux OS Model In The Cloud?
- The State Of NoSQL In 2012
- Ask HighScalability: Facing Scaling Issues With News Feeds On Redis. Any Advice?
- Facebook Timeline: Brought To You By The Power Of Denormalization
- A Perfect Fifth Of Notes On Scalability
- Cell Architectures
- Elements Of Scale: Composing And Scaling Data Platforms
- Instagram Improved Their App's Performance. Here's How.
- Netflix: Developing, Deploying, And Supporting Software According To The Way Of The Cloud
- Instagram Architecture: 14 Million Users, Terabytes Of Photos, 100s Of Instances, Dozens Of Technologies
- How Can We Build Better Complex Systems? Containers, Microservices, And Continuous Delivery.
- The Stunning Scale Of AWS And What It Means For The Future Of The Cloud
- The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars
- 10 Core Architecture Pattern Variations For Achieving Scalability
- StackExchange Architecture Updates - Running Smoothly, Amazon 4x More Expensive
- Pursue Robust Indefinite Scalability With The Movable Feast Machine
- Tagged Architecture - Scaling To 100 Million Users, 1000 Servers, And 5 Billion Page Views
- 17 Techniques Used To Scale Turntable.Fm And Labmeeting To Millions Of Users
- 5 Scalability Poisons And 3 Cloud Scalability Antidotes
- The Secret Of Scaling: You Can't Linearly Scale Effort With Capacity
- Must See: 5 Steps To Scaling MongoDB (Or Any DB) In 8 Minutes
- What Google App Engine Price Changes Say About The Future Of Web Architecture
- The Three Ages Of Google - Batch, Warehouse, Instant
- Big List Of 20 Common Bottlenecks
- 10 EBay Secrets For Planet Wide Scaling
- Instagram Architecture Update: What’s New With Instagram?
- Strategy: Run A Scalable, Available, And Cheap Static Site On S3 Or GitHub
- Paper: The Akamai Network - 61,000 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries
- LevelDB - Fast And Lightweight Key/Value Database From The Authors Of MapReduce And BigTable
- Jim Starkey Is Creating A Brave New World By Rethinking Databases For The Cloud
- Peecho Architecture - Scalability On A Shoestring
- Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too: Closure, Java Servlets, JavaScript, BigTable, Colossus, Quick Turnaround
- Cloud Architecture Revolution
- The Secret To 10 Million Concurrent Connections -The Kernel Is The Problem, Not The Solution
- 11 Common Web Use Cases Solved In Redis
- TripAdvisor Architecture - 40M Visitors, 200M Dynamic Page Views, 30TB Data
- 35+ Use Cases For Choosing Your Next NoSQL Database
- 101 Questions To Ask When Considering A NoSQL Database
- Awesome List Of Advanced Distributed Systems Papers
- Stack Overflow Makes Slow Pages 100x Faster By Simple SQL Tuning
- Heroku Emergency Strategy: Incident Command System And 8 Hour Ops Rotations For Fresh Minds
- 6 Ways Not To Scale That Will Make You Hip, Popular And Loved By VCs
- Aztec Empire Strategy: Use Dual Pipes In Your Aqueduct For High Availability
- Did The Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?
- Facebook's New Realtime Analytics System: HBase To Process 20 Billion Events Per Day
- 6 Lessons From Dropbox - One Million Files Saved Every 15 Minutes
- This Stuff Isn't Taught, You Learn It Bit By Bit As You Solve Each Problem.
- Is Node.Js Becoming A Part Of The Stack? SimpleGeo Says Yes.
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Mollom Architecture - Killing Over 373 Million Spams At 100 Requests Per Second
Google Pro Tip: Use Back-Of-The-Envelope-Calculations To Choose The Best Design - Netflix: Continually Test By Failing Servers With Chaos Monkey
- 7 Design Patterns For Almost-Infinite Scalability
- What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?
- The Stunning Scale Of AWS And What It Means For The Future Of The Cloud
- GPU Vs CPU Smackdown : The Rise Of Throughput-Oriented Architectures
- 8 Commonly Used Scalable System Design Patterns
- Great Introductory Video On Scalability From Harvard Computer Science
- Facebook's New Real-Time Messaging System: HBase To Store 135+ Billion Messages A Month
- Facebook At 13 Million Queries Per Second Recommends: Minimize Request Variance
- Machine VM + Cloud API - Rewriting The Cloud From Scratch
- 10 Golden Principles For Building Successful Mobile/Web Applications
- Troubles With Sharding - What Can We Learn From The Foursquare Incident?
- Google's Colossus Makes Search Real-Time By Dumping MapReduce
- 6 Ways To Kill Your Servers - Learning How To Scale The Hard Way
- Misco: A MapReduce Framework For Mobile Systems - Start Of The Ambient Cloud?
- Scaling An AWS Infrastructure - Tools And Patterns
- Vertical Scaling Ascendant - How Are SSDs Changing Architectures?
- Think Of Latency As A Pseudo-Permanent Network Partition
- 7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used To Grow To 500 Million Users
- How Can We Spark The Movement Of Research Out Of The Ivory Tower And Into Production?
- Big Data Counting: How To Count A Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory
- Google: Taming The Long Latency Tail - When More Machines Equals Worse Results
- Ask For Forgiveness Programming - Or How We'll Program 1000 Cores
- Grace Hopper To Programmers: Mind Your Nanoseconds!
- The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Blekko’s NoSQL Database
- The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Crawling Using Combinators
- C Is For Compute - Google Compute Engine (GCE)
- An Unorthodox Approach To Database Design : The Coming Of The Shard
- 10 Golden Principles For Building Successful Mobile/Web Applications
- The Performance Of Distributed Data-Structures Running On A "Cache-Coherent" In-Memory Data Grid
- MemSQL Architecture - The Fast (MVCC, InMem, LockFree, CodeGen) And Familiar (SQL)
- Prismatic Architecture - Using Machine Learning On Social Networks To Figure Out What You Should Read On The Web
- Changing Architectures: New Datacenter Networks Will Set Your Code And Data Free
- MemSQL Architecture - The Fast (MVCC, InMem, LockFree, CodeGen) And Familiar (SQL)
- Prismatic Architecture - Using Machine Learning On Social Networks To Figure Out What You Should Read On The Web
- Hidden History: Driving The Last Spike Of The Transcontinental Railroad Was An Early Version Of The Internet Of Things
- Your Load Generator Is Probably Lying To You - Take The Red Pill And Find Out Why
- What Can The Amazing Race To The South Pole Teach Us About Startups?
- If You're Programming A Cell Phone Like A Server You're Doing It Wrong
- Vertical Scaling Ascendant - How Are SSDs Changing Architectures?
- 10 Golden Principles For Building Successful Mobile/Web Applications
- The Clever Ways Chrome Hides Latency By Anticipating Your Every Need
- An Epic TripAdvisor Update: Why Not Run On The Cloud? The Grand Experiment.
- Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In
- Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe for Making 1 Million TPS on $5K Hardware
- Sharding The Hibernate Way
- The Mother Of All Database Normalization Debates On Coding Horror
- Log Everything All The Time
- Scaling Secret #2: Denormalizing Your Way To Speed And Profit
- Strategy: Diagonal Scaling - Don't Forget To Scale Out AND Up
- Paper: On Designing And Deploying Internet-Scale Services
- Strategy: Three Techniques To Survive Traffic Surges By Quickly Scaling Your Site
- ZooKeeper - A Reliable, Scalable Distributed Coordination System
- GridGain: One Compute Grid, Many Data Grids
- Scaling Spam Eradication Using Purposeful Games: Die Spammer Die!
- Google AppEngine - A Second Look
- Cloud Programming Directly Feeds Cost Allocation Back Into Software Design
- Paper: The End Of An Architectural Era (It’s Time For A Complete Rewrite)
- At Some Point The Cost Of Servers Outweighs The Cost Of Programmers
- Drop ACID And Think About Data
- How To Succeed At Capacity Planning Without Really Trying : An Interview With Flickr's John Allspaw On His New Book
- Ten Lessons From GitHub’s First Year In 2008
- How Google Serves Data From Multiple Datacenters
- Strategy: Break Up The Memcache Dog Pile
- Building Scalable Systems Using Data As A Composite Material
- MySQL And Memcached: End Of An Era?
- Seven Signs You May Need A NoSQL Database
- 7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit To 270 Million Page Views A Month
- How Can We Spark The Movement Of Research Out Of The Ivory Tower And Into Production?
- 6 Ways To Kill Your Servers - Learning How To Scale The Hard Way
- Machine VM + Cloud API - Rewriting The Cloud From Scratch
- Heroku Emergency Strategy: Incident Command System And 8 Hour Ops Rotations For Fresh Minds
- 6 Ways Not To Scale That Will Make You Hip, Popular And Loved By VCs
- Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too: Closure, Java Servlets, JavaScript, BigTable, Colossus, Quick Turnaround
- Six Lessons Learned The Hard Way About Scaling A Million User System
- Sean Hull's 20 Biggest Bottlenecks That Reduce And Slow Down Scalability
- How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets A Day Using MySQL
- Resiliency Is The New Normal - A Deep Look At What It Means And How To Build It
- Switch Your Databases To Flash Storage. Now. Or You're Doing It Wrong.
- Ask HS: What Will Programming And Architecture Look Like In 2020?
- Designing For Resiliency Will Be So 2013
- Pinterest Cut Costs From $54 To $20 Per Hour By Automatically Shutting Down Systems
- Robert Scoble's Rules For Successfully Scaling Startups
- What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?
- How Facebook Makes Mobile Work At Scale For All Phones, On All Screens, On All Networks
- The Four Meta Secrets Of Scaling At Facebook
- Facebook At 13 Million Queries Per Second Recommends: Minimize Request Variance
- Google: Taming The Long Latency Tail - When More Machines Equals Worse Results
- Google Strategy: Tree Distribution Of Requests And Responses
- AppBackplane - A Framework For Supporting Multiple Application Architectures
- The Changing Face Of Scale - The Downside Of Scaling In The Contextual Age
- Beyond Threads And Callbacks - Application Architecture Pros And Cons
- 42 Monster Problems That Attack As Loads Increase
- When All The Program's A Graph - Prismatic's Plumbing Library
- Better Browser Caching Is More Important Than No Javascript Or Fast Networks For HTTP Performance
- DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches A Day And Growing
- More Numbers Every Awesome Programmer Must Know
- What Can The Amazing Race To The South Pole Teach Us About Startups?
- 100 Curse Free Lessons From Gordon Ramsay On Building Great Software
- How Do You Create A 100th Monkey Software Development Culture?
- Leveraging Cloud Computing At Yelp - 102 Million Monthly Vistors And 39 Million Reviews
- Busting 4 Modern Hardware Myths - Are Memory, HDDs, And SSDs Really Random Access?
- The 10 Deadly Sins Against Scalability
- That's Not My Problem - I'm Renting Them
- 100 Curse Free Lessons From Gordon Ramsay On Building Great Software
- Salesforce Architecture - How They Handle 1.3 Billion Transactions A Day
- Scaling Mailbox - From 0 To One Million Users In 6 Weeks And 100 Million Messages Per Day
- Cinchcast Architecture - Producing 1,500 Hours Of Audio Every Day
- StubHub Architecture: The Surprising Complexity Behind The World’s Largest Ticket Marketplace
- IDoneThis - Scaling An Email-Based App From Scratch
- ESPN's Architecture At Scale - Operating At 100,000 Duh Nuh Nuhs Per Second
- One Story Of Life As Told Through Queues
- How Can Batching Requests Actually Reduce Latency?
- How Google Backs Up The Internet Along With Exabytes Of Other Data
- 10 Things Bitly Should Have Monitored
- How Next Big Sound Tracks Over A Trillion Song Plays, Likes, And More Using A Version Control System For Hadoop Data
- How Would You Build The Next Internet? Loons, Drones, Copters, Satellites, Or Something Else?
- 8 Ways Stardog Made Its Database Insanely Scalable
- NYTimes Architecture: No Head, No Master, No Single Point Of Failure
- Under Snowden's Light Software Architecture Choices Become Murky
- How HipChat Stores And Indexes Billions Of Messages Using ElasticSearch And Redis
- What Happens While Your Brain Sleeps Is Surprisingly Like How Computers Stay Sane
- 22 Recommendations For Building Effective High Traffic Web Software
- How Can Batching Requests Actually Reduce Latency?
- Evolution Of Bazaarvoice’s Architecture To 500M Unique Users Per Month
- One Story Of Life As Told Through Queues
- Hidden History: Driving The Last Spike Of The Transcontinental Railroad Was An Early Version Of The Internet Of Things
- We Finally Cracked The 10K Problem - This Time For Managing Servers With 2000x Servers Managed Per Sysadmin
- Google Says Cloud Prices Will Follow Moore’s Law: Are We All Renters Now?
- 10 Things You Should Know About AWS
- The FireBox Warehouse Scale Computer In 2020 Will Have 1K Sockets, 100K Cores, 100PB NV RAM, And A 4Pb/S Network
- ESPN's Architecture At Scale - Operating At 100,000 Duh Nuh Nuhs Per Second
- Google's Sanjay Ghemawat On What Made Google Google And Great Big Data Career Advice
- Little’s Law, Scalability And Fault Tolerance: The OS Is Your Bottleneck. What You Can Do?
- How Google Backs Up The Internet Along With Exabytes Of Other Data
- Planetary-Scale Computing Architectures For Electronic Trading And How Algorithms Shape Our World
- Paper: Network Stack Specialization For Performance
- How The AOL.Com Architecture Evolved To 99.999% Availability, 8 Million Visitors Per Day, And 200,000 Requests Per Second
- 5 Tips For Scaling NoSQL Databases: Don’t Trust Assumptions
- Little’s Law, Scalability And Fault Tolerance: The OS Is Your Bottleneck. What You Can Do?
- Here's A 1300 Year Old Solution To Resilience - Rebuild, Rebuild, Rebuild
- This Is Why Microsoft Won. And Why They Lost.
- Microservices - Not A Free Lunch!
- Update On Disqus: It's Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python
- 10 Program Busting Caching Mistakes
- Bitly: Lessons Learned Building A Distributed System That Handles 6 Billion Clicks A Month
- 9 Principles Of High Performance Programs
- How Twitter Uses Redis To Scale - 105TB RAM, 39MM QPS, 10,000+ Instances
- Getting Things Right: A Look At Centralized Vs Decentralized Systems Through The Eyes Of Instant Replay
- 10 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application
- Strategy: Change The Problem
- Let's Build Maker Cities For Maker People Around New Resources Like Bandwidth, Compute, And Atomically-Precise Manufacturing
- The Easy Way Of Building A Growing Startup Architecture Using HAProxy, PHP, Redis And MySQL To Handle 1 Billion Requests A Week
- The Great Microservices Vs Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee
- StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews A Month, 25 Servers, And It's All About Performance
- The Secret Of Scaling: You Can't Linearly Scale Effort With Capacity
- 10 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application
- All Employees Should Be Limited Only By Their Ability Rather Than An Absence Of Resources
- The Big Problem Is Medium Data
- The Machine: HP's New Memristor Based Datacenter Scale Computer - Still Changing Everything
- Make Any Framework Suck Less With These 10 Insightful Lessons
- We Are Leaving 3x-4x Performance On The Table Just Because Of Configuration
- Aeron: Do We Really Need Another Messaging System?
- Facebook Mobile Drops Pull For Push-Based Snapshot + Delta Model
- How League Of Legends Scaled Chat To 70 Million Players - It Takes Lots Of Minions
- That's Not My Problem - I'm Renting Them
- Instagram Improved Their App's Performance. Here's How
- Rescuing An Outsourced Project From Collapse: 8 Problems Found And 8 Lessons Learned
- Vinted Architecture: Keeping A Busy Portal Stable By Deploying Several Hundred Times Per Day
- Matt Cutts: 10 Lessons Learned From The Early Days Of Google
- Paper: Immutability Changes Everything By Pat Helland
- Learn From My Pain - 5 Lessons From Ello's Adventures In Rapid Scaling
- The Ultimate Guide: 5 Methods For Debugging Production Servers At Scale
- Von Neumann Had One Piece Of Advice For Us: Not To Originate Anything.
- Linus: The Whole "Parallel Computing Is The Future" Is A Bunch Of Crock.
- Scalability As A Service
- Paper: Large-Scale Cluster Management At Google With Borg
- The Big Problem Is Medium Data
- Multithreaded Programming Has Really Gone To The Dogs
- The Machine: HP's New Memristor Based Datacenter Scale Computer - Still Changing Everything
- All Employees Should Be Limited Only By Their Ability Rather Than An Absence Of Resources.
- Auth0 Architecture - Running In Multiple Cloud Providers And Regions
- Make Any Framework Suck Less With These 10 Insightful Lessons
- The Black Magic Of Systematically Reducing Linux OS Jitter
- 6 Ways To Defeat The Coming Robot Army Swarms
- How We Scale VividCortex's Backend Systems
- Seven Of The Nastiest Anti-Patterns In Microservices
- HappyPancake: A Retrospective On Building A Simple And Scalable Foundation
- The Convergence That Changes Everything: Data Gravity + Containers + Microservices
- AppLovin: Marketing To Mobile Consumers Worldwide By Processing 30 Billion Requests A Day
- Scaling Kim Kardashian To 100 Million Page Views
- Rescuing An Outsourced Project From Collapse: 8 Problems Found And 8 Lessons Learned
- Vinted Architecture: Keeping A Busy Portal Stable By Deploying Several Hundred Times Per Day
- How Debugging Is Like Hunting Serial Killers
- Algolia's Fury Road To A Worldwide API Part 3
- Architecting Backend For A Social Product
- This. Just. This.
- 64 Network DO’s And DON’Ts For Game Engines. Part IIIa: Server-Side
- Why My Water Droplet Is Better Than Your Hadoop Cluster
- How Autodesk Implemented Scalable Eventing Over Mesos
- Want IoT? Here's How A Major US Utility Collects Power Data From Over 5.5 Million Meters
- How Uber Scales Their Real-Time Market Platform
- Trade Stimulators And The Very Old Idea Of Increasing User Engagement
- Building Globally Distributed, Mission Critical Applications: Lessons From The Trenches Part 2
- 7 Strategies For 10x Transformative Change
- Ask HighScalability: Choose An Async App Server Or Multiple Blocking Servers?
- How Facebook Tells Your Friends You're Safe In A Disaster In Under Five Minutes
- How Will New Memory Technologies Impact In-Memory Databases?
- Uber Goes Unconventional: Using Driver Phones As A Backup Datacenter
- 5 Lessons And 8 Industry Changes Over 5 Years As Etsy CTO
- How Uber Scales Their Real-Time Market Platform
- How Shopify Scales To Handle Flash Sales From Kanye West And The Superbowl
- What Ideas In IT Must Die?
- 5 Lessons From 5 Years Of Building Instagram
- Segment: Rebuilding Our Infrastructure With Docker, ECS, And Terraform
- Deep Lessons From Google And EBay On Building Ecosystems Of Microservices
- How Does The Use Of Docker Effect Latency?
- The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers!
- Malice Or Stupidity Or Inattention? Using Code Reviews To Find Backdoors
- Google's Transition From Single Datacenter, To Failover, To A Native Multihomed Architecture
- How To Build Your Property Management System Integration Using Microservices
- Let's Donate Our Organs And Unused Cloud Cycles To Science
- Lessons Learned From Scaling Uber To 2000 Engineers, 1000 Services, And 8000 Git Repositories
- How Uber Manages A Million Writes Per Second Using Mesos And Cassandra Across Multiple Datacenters
- The Dollar Shave Club Architecture Unilever Bought For $1 Billion
- Code Generation: The Inner Sanctum Of Database Performance
- The Cat-And-Mouse Story Of Implementing Anti-Spam For Mail.Ru Group’s Email Service And What Tarantool Has To Do With This
- The Always On Architecture - Moving Beyond Legacy Disaster Recovery
- How Facebook Live Streams To 800,000 Simultaneous Viewers
- How Twitter Handles 3,000 Images Per Second
- The Gig Economy Breaks Social Security
- A Journey Through How Zapier Automates Billions Of Workflow Automation Tasks
- Cloud Programming Directly Feeds Cost Allocation Back Into Software Design
- What Google App Engine Price Changes Say About The Future Of Web Architecture
- Google Pro Tip: Use Back-Of-The-Envelope-Calculations To Choose The Best Design
- Google Strategy: Tree Distribution Of Requests And Responses
- This Stuff Isn't Taught, You Learn It Bit By Bit As You Solve Each Problem.
- Strategy: Disk Backup For Speed, Tape Backup To Save Your Bacon, Just Ask Google
- The Three Ages Of Google - Batch, Warehouse, Instant
- Big Data Counting: How To Count A Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory
- Google Finds: Centralized Control, Distributed Data Architectures Work Better Than Fully Decentralized Architectures
- Facebook: An Example Canonical Architecture For Scaling Billions Of Messages
- The Canonical Cloud Architecture
- How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Using A Lot Of Disk Space To Scale
- A Beginner's Guide To Scaling To 11 Million+ Users On Amazon's AWS
- Lessons Learned From Scaling Uber To 2000 Engineers, 1000 Services, And 8000 Git Repositories
- The Great Microservices Vs Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee
- Justin.Tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture
- The Eternal Cost Savings Of Netflix's Internal Spot Market
- What Do You Believe Now That You Didn't Five Years Ago? Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses.
- How Would You Build The Next Internet? Loons, Drones, Copters, Satellites, Or Something Else?
- Machine Learning Driven Programming: A New Programming For A New World
- The Always On Architecture - Moving Beyond Legacy Disaster Recovery
- How Do You Explain The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Cloud Security?
- How Does Google Do Planet-Scale Engineering For A Planet-Scale Infrastructure?
- Strategy: Break Up The Memcache Dog Pile
- Google And Netflix Strategy: Use Partial Responses To Reduce Request Sizes
- Here's A 1300 Year Old Solution To Resilience - Rebuild, Rebuild, Rebuild
- The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars
Posts Teaching the Basics
- Intuitively Showing How To Scale A Web Application Using A Coffee Shop As An Example
- 7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used To Grow To 500 Million Users
- The 7 Stages Of Scaling Web Apps
- The 4 Building Blocks Of Architecting Systems For Scale
- Scalability for Dummies by Sebastian Kreutzberger
- Great Introductory Video On Scalability From Harvard Computer Science
- The 7 Stages Of Scaling Web Apps
- Five Ways To Stop Framework Fixation From Crashing Your Scaling Strategy
- What's Your Scalability Plan?
- Some Facebook Secrets To Better Operations
- Papers: Readings In Distributed Systems
- Learn How To Think At Scale
- Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
- The Canonical Cloud Architecture
- How Google Taught Me To Cache And Cash-In
- 8 Commonly Used Scalable System Design Patterns
- Google Pro Tip: Use Back-Of-The-Envelope-Calculations To Choose The Best Design
- Awesome List Of Advanced Distributed Systems Papers
- A Flock Of Tasty Sources On How To Start Learning High Scalability
- A Beginner's Guide To Scaling To 11 Million+ Users On Amazon's AWS