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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below. API Design. Problem Statement. Architecture. Data Models.

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How It Works (It Just Runs Faster): Non-Volatile Memory SQL Server Tail Of Log Caching on NVDIMM

SQL Server According to Bob

Note: We received feedback that there was some confusion on us calling this functionality “tail of the log caching” because our documentation and prior history has referred to the tail of the log as the portion of the hardened log that has not been backed up. Tail Of Log Caching.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process. How do I know that my cache is up to date? of the data.

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Sponsored Post: pMD, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Stream, Scalyr

High Scalability

Senior DevOps Engineer : Your engineering work will focus on using your deep knowledge of the web stack including firewalls, web applications, caches and data stores ­ to create innovative infrastructure architectures that are resilient, scalable, and blazingly fast. Please apply here. Apply here. Need excellent people?

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D.

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Scales 7x Better

SQL Server According to Bob

Internally DBCC CHECK* uses a page scanning coordinator design (MultiObjectScanner.) SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases.

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Architectural Myopia

ACM Sigarch

In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns. I recall heated discussions 20+ years ago on whether speculative data in caches improves or degrades cache performance.