A very interesting presentation about using asynchronous messaging systems in scaling up applications. The presentation is split into main parts. The first part is a quick rant to cut some crap related to application scaling according to the presenter. These include: Big data do not really exist Sharded RDBMS offer better scalability than NoSQL. So big data is … Continue reading
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QUOTATION: Overcome Machine-Induced Self-Denial
You can avoid machine-induced self-denial by building a “shared- nothing” architecture. Where that is impractical, apply decoupling middleware to reduce the impact of excessive demand, or make the shared resource itself horizontally scal- able through redundancy and a backside synchronization protocol. You can also design a fallback mode for the system to use when the … Continue reading
Quotation: System Integration Points
Integration points are the number-one killer of systems. Every single one of those feeds presents a stability risk. Every socket, process, pipe or remote procedure call can and will hang. Even database calls can hang, in ways obvious and subtle. Every feed into the system can hang it, crash it or generate other impulses at … Continue reading
REPHRASE: Scale at Facebook
Aditya Agarwal, Director of engineering at facebook, gave a very interesting presentation in May 28th at QCon illustrating Facebook architecture. Aditya stressed on making it quickly to the market and not to over engineer. “Scalability is a good problem to have” as stated by Aditya. Statistics: 1. users spend 8 billion a minute per day … Continue reading
LINK: Scaling websites presentations
A lists of biggest websites scaling presentations http://bit.ly/IragG
LINK: How to Avoid the Top 5 Scale-Out Pitfalls
Quick, straight to the point and very true directions to help you scale out your web site. http://bit.ly/3RuBYL
LINK: Bigger, faster and more reliable websites
An excellent reference for high scalable websites. It contains examples, concepts and references. http://highscalability.com/