High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Steve Blank tells the Secret History of Silicon Valley. What a long, strange trip it is. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

Internet 135

Internet Internet Scalability AWS 135

Alex Podelko

JULY 13, 2018

One software vendor ask me, along with a few other performance professionals, to answer questions related to performance trends. But they changed their mind and never published it – leaving me to contemplate which particular thought they didn’t like… Well, here are their questions and my answers: What do you think is the “next big thing in performance” – or what should we all keep an eye out for in 2018?

Performance 113

Performance DevOps Performance Testing Engineering 113

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Building data pipelines can offer strategic advantages to the business. It can be used to power new analytics, insight, and product features. Often companies underestimate the necessary effort and cost involved to build and maintain data pipelines. Data pipeline initiatives are generally unfinished projects. In this post, we will discuss why you should avoid building data pipelines in first place.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Polyglot Developer

JULY 13, 2018

You’re about to release your new Angular web app. It’s a photo sharing site and you want to test it, so you send a link to it to your hacker sister. She’s always messing with your stuff and she found out the URL to your admin page you added to your web app. Before you know it, she’s flushed your database using a button on that admin page that you didn’t restrict access to.

Mobile 56

Mobile Database Testing Development 56

High Scalability

JULY 10, 2018

Who's Hiring? Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform. Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we're dealing with engaging problems at a massive scale and will create solutions that impact millions of people around the world.

Ecommerce 107

Ecommerce Metrics Software Engineering Engineering 107

Percona Community

JULY 10, 2018

Amazon RDS for MySQL offers the option to automate minor version upgrades using the minor version upgrade policy, a property that lets you decide if Amazon is allowed to perform the upgrades on your behalf. Usually the goal is not to upgrade automatically every RDS instance but to keep up to date automatically non-production deployments. This helps you address engine issues as soon as possible and improve the automation of the deployment process.

Engineering 40

Engineering Processing Performance 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

The assumption that engagement is somehow strongly correlated with performance is misplaced. Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. Moreover, there is hardly any strong scientific evidence suggesting that there is a correlation between high-engagement and high-performance.

Performance 45

Performance Benchmarking Energy Engineering 45

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

Application State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making. As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. This gave rise to the need for an approach that would allow independent functional teams to be able to deliver their functionality in its entirety with minimal (if any) dependency on other teams.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

J. Paul Reed

JULY 10, 2018

Three years ago when I would talk to engineers and technology leaders about the ideas around Chaos Engineering, only about a fifth of the audience had heard of the concept. Now when I mention the term, most hands in the room go up. This is due in large part to Netflix’s Chaos Monkey (and the rest of their “ Simian Army ”) as well as their Chaos Engineering team’s stories on the work they’ve done in the space and the benefits it’s produced.

Engineering 40

Engineering C++ Technology Technology 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

Application State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making. As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. This gave rise to the need for an approach that would allow independent functional teams to be able to deliver their functionality in its entirety with minimal (if any) dependency on other teams.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40