10 Things You Should Know About Running MongoDB At Scale
This post outlines ten things you need to know for operating MongoDB at scale based on my experience working with MongoDB customers and open source users. Related Articles:
Cassandra – The Right Data Store for Scalability, Performance, Availability and Maintainability
Cassandra is an open source, distributed, column – based database management system (DBMS). Cassandra claims to be designed for large volumes of distributed data, with high availability, high throughput and high reliability. Related Articles:
AWS Autoscaling Best Practices for startups
So for a website you save money when traffic is low; dynamic scaling based on traffic. Enterprise SaaS is great for AWS since customers are using your product during typical business hours, resulting in very low traffic at night. Related Articles:
Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution
We love PostgreSQL at Braintree. Although we use many different data stores (such as Riak, MongoDB, Redis, and Memcached), most of our core data is stored in PostgreSQL. It's not as sexy as the new NoSQL databases, but PostgreSQL is consistent and incredibly reliable, two properties we val ...
Performance vs. Scalability
When people talk about performance and scalability they very often use these two word synonymously. However they mean different things. As there is a lot of misunderstanding on that topic, I thought it makes sense to have a blog post on it. Related Articles:
6 Lessons From Dropbox – One Million Files Saved Every 15 Minutes
Dropbox saves one million files every 15 minutes, more tweets than even Twitterers tweet. That mind blowing statistic was revealed by Rian Hunter, a Dropbox Engineer, in his presentation How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped at PyCon 2011. The first part of the presentation is some ...
The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars
It's been a well kept secret, but you may have heard Facebook will Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion. Just what is Facebook buying? Here's a quick gloss I did a little over a year ago on a presentation Instagram gave on their architecture. In that article I called Instagra ...
Multi-Tenant Data Architecture
Trust, or the lack thereof, is the number one factor blocking the adoption of software as a service (SaaS). A case could be made that data is the most important asset of any business—data about products, customers, employees, suppliers, and more. And data, of course, is at the heart of S ...
Scaling Your Web App 101: Lessons in Architecture Under Load
It’s the classic champagne problem that most successful web apps will deal with – there are so many users on your site that things are starting to get bogged down. Pages load slowly, network connections start timing out and your servers are starting to creak under heavy load. Congra ...
Live Video Streaming At Facebook Scale
Operating at Facebook scale is far from trivial. With 1.49 billion monthly active users (and growing 13 percent yearly), every 60 seconds on Facebook 510 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses are updated, and 136,000 photos are uploaded. And there lies the challenge of serving the masses e ...