sheprador.com
diamond | Sheprador
http://sheprador.com/author/diamond
Building Performance, Availablity and Reliability. For the past nine months, I’ve been working at APTrust, building an online digital repository for universities to back up important data. The main point of the system is to enable universities to recover data in the event of a local or regional disaster. The two big projects I worked on prior to APTrust both had a focus on performance and availability. My current project, by definition, must focus on availability and reliability. Library. At the time...
linkedbigdata.com
LinkedBigData: February 2015
http://www.linkedbigdata.com/2015_02_01_archive.html
Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Links: February 18, 2015. Myriad (YARN scheduler for Mesos, see also Mesos scheduler for AWS ECS. Flannel (CoreOS overlay network for Kubernetes, manage network communication between containers across hosts). NetVM (high performance networking in virtualized commodity platforms, use Intel DPDK and shared memory between VMs). React Canvas (render React components in canvas rather than DOM, by Flipboard, see also Jank Free. Implemented by Akka Streams and RxJava). Comcast (sim...
techpodcast.bitly.com
11 - Danger! High Voltage — Bitly Tech Podcast
http://techpodcast.bitly.com/episodes/2015/6/22/11-danger-high-voltage
Talk about working with Threat Exchange and life on-call. Links for this week:. Google Safe Browsing API. How Reddit's cofounders built Reddit with an army of fake accounts. Github Great Cannon Attack. Tech Podcast Show Notes. Rate and subscribe in iTunes. Sean's Speaking at Open Source Bridge in Portland, OR. Georgi's Teaching a Workship at OSCON in Portland, OR. Posted on June 23, 2015 by Sean O'Connor. What's all this about? In NYC, Denver, and SF.
blog.avocet.io
Avocet - From Zero to 6.2 Billion Requests
http://blog.avocet.io/from-0-to-6-2-billion-requests
From Zero to 6.2 Billion Requests. Over the past year at Avocet. We've been busy building a platform from the ground up to handle the high-scale, low-latency demands of programmatic advertising. Each month the number of transactions we process increases several-fold, with the first month resulting in over 6.2 billion requests. At an average of around 200 million requests per day. All this whilst maintaining an average latency of 10ms. Choosing the right tools for the job. As a central discovery service f...
kalzumeus.com
Kalzumeus Software | Blog
http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Start Here If You’re New. Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 12: Salary Negotiation with Josh Doody. June 3, 2016. Several years ago I wrote a blog post on salary negotiation for engineers. A buddy of mine, Josh Doody, has decided to thoroughly own this area, and published a book. On the topic. I rather enjoyed the book, and thought I would have him on the podcast to talk about the topic in more detail. Either subscr...
dieter.plaetinck.be
Graphite & Influxdb intermezzo: migrating old data and a more powerful carbon relay · Dieter's blog
http://dieter.plaetinck.be/post/graphite-influxdb-intermezzo-migrating-old-data-and-a-more-powerful-carbon-relay
Graphite and Influxdb intermezzo: migrating old data and a more powerful carbon relay. September 20, 2014. Migrating data from whisper into InfluxDB. How do i migrate whisper data to influxdb". Is a question that comes up regularly, and I've always replied it should be easy to write a tool to do this. I personally had no need for this, until a recent small influxdb outage where I wanted to sync data from our backup server (running graphite whisper) to influxdb, so I wrote a script:. Date -d sep 17 6am.
aphyr.com
Jepsen: RabbitMQ
https://aphyr.com/posts/315-call-me-maybe-rabbitmq
Rabbit as a lock service. While I was working on building Knossos. Ndash;Jepsen’s linearizability checker. Ndash;a RabbitMQ blog post. Made the rounds of various news aggregators. In this post, the RabbitMQ team showed how one could turn RabbitMQ into a distributed mutex or semaphore service. I thought this was a little bit suspicious, because the RabbitMQ documentation is very clear that partitions invalidate essentially all Rabbit guarantees. But let’s go with it for a minute. RabbitMQ, however, is.
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