Scalability links for January 19th: Optimizing TCP Socket Across Data Centers – Intersting observation of why bandwidth sometime hits a ceiling. Also explains why organizatinos need CDNs and local datacenters closer to the end users. Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk – I made a prediction just a few days ago that AWS would do something like [...]

Scalability links for January 13th: Building Mobile Apps With AWS? Submit Them to the Amazon Appstore! – I wonder if this is realted to lab126 project. Big News for Cloud Files Users – Akamai is coming! – This is huge. The onslaught of features from Amazon pretty much forced these two giants to partner up. [...]

Scalability links for December 4th: Presenting – La Brea – An interesting tool which could be used to understand how failures, latency and other annoying issues can impact an application. The tool allows one to insert system calls into an existing application without recompiling original application. What's new in Cassandra 0.7: Secondary indexes – I [...]

I heard an unconfirmed rumor that facebook is moving away from Cassandra. Not sure why, or to what, but rumors like this is a concern regardless. After twitter‘s backing off, and digg’s troubles, which were indirectly linked to either Cassandra’s maturity as a production solution or their understanding of Cassandra’s capability, it might raise more eyebrows [...]

Scalability links for October 28th: New Features in Cassandra 0.7 – The biggest change for me in 0.7 is the presence of secondary indexes (inverted indexes). I’ll be switching cfmap to 0.7 very soon… Do you have an Elephant and Pig in your data center? Hadoop momentum continues – Hadoop’s is taking over the data [...]

Scalability links for October 21st: VMware and Google Launch 1st Series of Development Tools – VMware has collected some interesting assets. One of them was SpringSource. I’m slightly surprised with google and vmware working together. I guess both of them think there is something they both can gain from it. OpenStack: An Open Cloud Initiative [...]

Scalability links for October 18th: Foursquare MongoDB Outage Post Mortem – Detailed analysis of what caused the foursquare (mongodb) outages. SURGE Recap – Interesting take aways from a scalability conference. The one new take away I noticed is “Make use of academic literature”. Netflix Migration to the Cloud – Very interesting (technical) information about why [...]