December 2007 - Evan Hoff

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Learning from MySpace

I wanted to draw attention to another valuable read. This one comes as a bit of a history of the design and architecture over at MySpace. It's quite an interesting read, and if you watched/read my previous two posts, you will see lots of overlap....

Published Sun, Dec 30 2007 5:22 PM by hoffe
Building Large Systems at Google

I watched this video very late last night--way cool. It's a Google TechTalk about building very large systems. A few things stand out to me: How a large cluster of commodity machines (1000+) can function as a single large fault-tolerant hard drive...

Published Sun, Dec 30 2007 5:16 PM by hoffe
Infinite Scaling and Distributed Transactions

I posted a link to this paper a few days agon on one of the mailinglists I subscribe to. I thought I would share with you guys as well: Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate's Opinion This is a really good read from Pat Helland on scalability...

Published Sun, Dec 30 2007 5:09 PM by hoffe