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How about someone in SF closes a $200m round to build some fucking apartments?
Keeping distributed systems running smoothly seems to be mostly about figuring out ways to not DDoS yourself.
Once again, AWS sets the bar for postmortems: https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/
. @kellabyte http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/protocols08cookies.pdf … <--- great paper on implementing secure session cookies
Never EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER use local time.
Only things we use unscathed by last night's us-east-1 hiccup: RabbitMQ and Cassandra. Both built distributed from the start. It matters.
Where is #AWS us-east-1 relative to Sandy's path? Pretty much dead center. http://rickbranson.com/us-east-sandy.png …
The initial implementation of Paxos-based check-and-set in Cassandra https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/8b0e1868e8cf813ddfc98d11448aa2ad363eccc1#L28R199 …
This is actually pretty good so far. "Welcome back to C++" http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh279654.aspx …
Spend the first N years of your career making yourself attractive to employers, then spend the rest mad that they email you. #lifehacks
Today we used a PostgreSQL partial index in to improve a certain query's performance by 100x. Impossible with MySQL.
I switched the Instagram CDN to @akamai in like 48 hours. What a beast of an infrastructure they have.
lmao if you aren't spending your youth moving data around between various instances of NoSQL stores.
Just in case you missed it: Friends who use Bang with Friends. https://www.facebook.com/browse/friends_using_app/?app_id=178205172320915 …
Pigs in flight. Cassandra committers starting to get serious about support for CAS (and the complexity it entails) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5062 …
That moment you realize the painstaking refactor across 150 files & 3,500 lines of code was so worth it. http://yfrog.com/ntcr9vqp
It seems that S3 is so good that a generation is growing up believing that scalable, reliable file storage is easy. I consider it progress.
Infrastructure at @Instagram. Alumni of @DataStax, @Coroutine, @MosaikGlobal, @FedEx.
