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I came across this fascinating piece by Adrian Colyer — Applying the Universal Scalability Law to organisations — and it genuinely reframed how I think about both technical systems and leadership. The core...
Read more →An interesting study of performance. It seems hard to believe.
Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby. Contribute to mperham/sidekiq development by creating an account on GitHub.
There are many ways to scale out your database; many of these techniques require advanced management and expensive add-ons or editions. Database sharding is a flexible way of scaling out a database. In this presentation, Jeremiah Peschka explains how to scale out using database sharding, covers basic techniques, and shares some of the pitfalls. This...
I’m increasingly encountering users on Heroku that are encountering the need to shard their data. For most users this is something you delay as long as possible as you can generally go for sometime before you have to worry about it. Additionally scaling up your database is often a reasonable approach early on and something I encourage as a starting point as scaling up is easy to do with regards to databases. However, for the 1% of users that do need to shard when the time comes many are left wondering where to start, hence the following guide.
OpiniDatabase sharding is the process of splitting up a database across multiple machines to improve the scalability of an application. The justification for database sharding is that after a certain scale point it is cheaper and more feasible to scale a site horizontally by adding more machines than to grow it vertically by adding beefier servers.
Scalability is considered a hard problem to tackle. It’s always presented like it’s something magical done with secret, special tools that only big, million ...
A list of things that we can do when we need to scale a SQL database.
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Really Excellent article about queues, overloads, bottlenecks and architecture
Really really interesting use case for REDIS, and a great scalability pattern
You know I’m into scalability right now. Here’s a short article with lots of the basics.
Good introduction to Cloud Computing and Machine Learning
The new rails guide on multi databases in activerecord
Always great to see another clarification of this important technique.
Scaling is an important topic that I care about. Here’s one person’s guide to making it to 100k. It’s a very complicated topic.