What will change everything this time? Data Gravity (move compute to data) + Containers (lightweight computation) + Microservices (composable compute modules) That’s according to John Willis and Damon Edwards on a highly recommended recent DevOps Cafe Episode. The high concept goes something like: Containers are the killer app for microservices. Data Gravity is the killer… Read More »
Your new website is growing exponentially. After a few rounds of high fives, you start scaling to meet this unexpected demand. While you can always add more front-end servers, eventually your database becomes a bottleneck, which leads you to . . . Add more replicas for better read throughput and data durability Introduce sharding to… Read More »
In this blog I’m not going to try and convince you which BPMS is the right one to buy. In this blog I want to take two steps back and first help you analyze whether or not you should even be shopping for a BPMS. Time is money, and I’m sure you don’t have time… Read More »
If you are selecting cloud computing services or if you want to improve your ROI in the cloud, here are 50 questions you’ll want to ask! Business Objectives – Identifying Why You Are Moving Into The Cloud 1. There are as many business objectives for the cloud as there are shades of any color, such… Read More »
Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy,… Read More »
TokuDB is an open source, high-performance storage engine for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server that dramatically improves scalability and operational efficiency. TokuDB is for Big Data applications with demanding requirements that are not met by your current storage engine and reduces the deployment costs associated with scaling and optimization efforts. TokuDB replaces 1970s B-tree indexing… Read More »
General performance improvements MySQL 5.6 by itself comes with a great list of performance fixes, however what we discovered that their focus was on small datasets that fit into memory. In other words, mostly on CPU-bound workloads. In our research we found that in IO-bound cases there is still room for improvement so we took action:… Read More »
AppLovin’s marketing platform provides marketing automation and analytics for brands who want to reach their consumers on mobile. The platform enables brands to use real-time data signals to make effective marketing decisions across one billion mobile consumers worldwide. Core Stats 30 Billion ad requests per day 300,000 ad requests per second, peaking at 500,000 ad… Read More »
The proliferation of NoSQL databases is a response to the needs of modern applications. Still, not all data can be shoehorned into a particular NoSQL model, which is why so many different database options exist in the market. As a result, organizations are now facing serious database bloat within their infrastructure. But a new class… Read More »
Algolia started in 2012 as an offline search engine SDK for mobile. At this time we had no idea that within two years we would have built a worldwide distributed search network. Today Algolia serves more than 2 billion user generated queries per month from 12 regions worldwide, our average server response time is 6.7ms… Read More »