High Scalability

AUGUST 7, 2018

Who's Hiring? NationBuilder — if you’re a systems engineer, SRE or DevOps focused developer and have been looking for a place where you can help other people while still working in tech? We can give that opportunity. Please apply here. Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 7, 2018

To facilitate the growth of Uber’s global operations, we need to be able to quickly store and access billions of metrics on our back-end systems at any given time. As part of our robust and scalable metrics infrastructure, we built … The post M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 8, 2018

A while ago, I ran into a situation where I needed to make web application into a desktop application for a corporate client. The idea was to leverage as much of the existing app as possible, while still meeting the requirement of having a “desktop” application. As a primarily Java developer, I had no idea how to do this, so I started doing research and found out that my best bet would be using JavaScript technologies.

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Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2018

One of the longest-standing items on my performance monitoring tool wishlist is an automatically-generated performance improvement checklist , with the improvements ordered by the impact that they will have on the website. In a previous life, I spent countless hours writing performance reports and conducting A/B performance tests to figure out which change would have the biggest impact on a website's performance.

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Professor Beekums

AUGUST 5, 2018

Automated testing is a wonderful thing. Think about it. Why spend hours, or even a few minutes, doing something that takes a computer less than a second. I’ve never regretted writing tests, especially after seeing the time to debug and fix bugs in a subsystem go from hours to minutes. Bug report -> investigation -> code fix -> test -> release, can all be done in under 15 minutes when automated tests are around.

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Percona

AUGUST 10, 2018

The performance of a PostgreSQL database can be compromised by dead tuples, since they continue to occupy space and can lead to bloat. We provided an introduction to VACUUM and bloat in an earlier blog post. Now, though, it’s time to look at autovacuum for postgres, and the internals you to know to maintain a high performance PostgreSQL database needed by demanding applications.

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Nathaniell Schutta

AUGUST 7, 2018

Full Abstract. Evolving to Cloud Native. Every organization has at least a phalanx or two in the “Cloud” and it is, understandably changing the way we architect our systems. But your application portfolio is full of “heritage” systems that hail from the time before everything was as a service. Not all of those applications will make it to the valley beyond, how do you grapple with your legacy portfolio?

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High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time (out Thur-Fri, so we're going early): London Maker Faire 1851— The Great Exhibition —100,000 objects, displayed along more than 10 miles, by over 15,000 contributors. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

SQL Server According to Bob

AUGUST 7, 2018

Today I was tracking a large BCP.exe ‘IN’ operation and monitoring the sys.dm_exec_requests entries. The ‘BULK INSERT’ command entry appeared, showing the CPU, reads, writes, … but these values where getting reset from time to time. Here are 3 snapshots from my system. cpu_time total_elapsed_time writes session_id start_time command. 1387 1396 32 51 2018-08-07 00:45:42.670 BULK INSERT 1930 1941 66 51 2018-08-07 00:46:02.087 BULK INSERT 632 638 32 51 2018-08-07 00:46:23.313 BULK INSERT.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. If you haven't put it on your reading list, here's a tantalizing excerpt from CHAPTER 11 Managing Load by Cooper Bethea, Gráinne Sheerin, Jennifer Mace, and Ruth King with Gary Luo and Gary O’Connor. Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 7, 2018

I am pleased to announce that the latest episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast is available for download! If you’ve been keeping up with the blog recently, I’ve published quite a bit of content around GraphQL as I personally believe it to be the future for API development. Being able to access related and unrelated data on demand through a single endpoint is huge for the people consuming your data and huge for the developers creating the data because of specific model definitions

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