High Scalability

JUNE 18, 2018

This is a guest post by Srushtika Neelakantam , Developer Advovate for Ably Realtime, a realtime data delivery platform. You can view the original article—H ow to implement consistent hashing efficiently —on Ably's blog. Ably’s realtime platform is distributed across more than 14 physical data centres and 100s of nodes. In order for us to ensure both load and data are distributed evenly and consistently across all our nodes, we use consistent hashing algorithms.

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Percona Community

JUNE 18, 2018

When we released TiDB 2.0 in April, part of that announcement also included the release of TiSpark 1.0–an integral part of the TiDB platform that makes complex analytics on “fresh” transactional data possible. Since then, many people in the TiDB community have been asking for more information about TiSpark. In this post, I will explain the motivation, inner workings, and future roadmap of this project.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This is the latest edition of our newsletter. To receive the email version please subscribe here. Hello friendly Serverless Insights subscribers! Summer has arrived in New York City?—?a time when locals scramble to find rooftops, dodge a million dripping air conditioners, and wonder how bodegas are selling pumpkin beer already. This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absen

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Professor Beekums

JUNE 17, 2018

I like to joke that one day I’m going to get a Phd in economics and make my thesis the cost to global GDP of the tabs vs spaces debate. There’s a great episode of Silicon Valley about it. Unfortunately, while the show does exaggerate some things for comedic effect, the brilliance of that show is how close it hits to home. For those who don’t know what the debate is about, developers can indent their code with spaces where it will look like this: Or they can indent their code where it will look l

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High Scalability

JUNE 19, 2018

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? The answer for me is simple: Developers want their applications to be well architected and scale effectively. To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same. China creates stunning non- polluting drone swarm firework displays. Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). ( TicToc ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me.

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