data center

Quoted: Breaking news and analysis about data centers, hosting, mission-critical facilities and disaster recovery.

Nothing too surprising here...but that's what makes it useful. Helps you understand the free tools that are generally used in operating scalable Web services.

Quoted: Ask Ron - our Systems Engineering Lead - the exact number of servers we have in production and he’ll probably respond with, “I don’t honestly know.” I can say we’ve got dozens of web servers and dozens more DB servers. I can say with certainty it takes six specialized graph database servers to run the Recommendation Engine and we have another six to ten machines that serve files from MogileFS

Interesting writeup of hacking MySQL to dirty memcached entries after replication sync.

Quoted: REPLACE INTO profile (`first_name`) VALUES ('Monkey') WHERE `user_id`='jsobel' MEMCACHE_DIRTY 'jsobel:first_name'

The Twitter "Fail Whale"

Quoted: Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time

Amazon is down. Outages happen even at the top sites.

Quoted: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

Quoted: However, it is also an extremely simple piece of software: all of the logic is client-side, there is no security model, failover, backup mechanisms, or persistence (albeit the last one is in the roadmap). But that hasn't stopped the developers from deploying it in all kinds of environments, and here are a few best practices suggested by Brian:

I've been waiting for something like this.

Quoted: Amazon DevPay removes the pain of having to create or manage your own order pipeline or billing system. It allows you to quickly sign up customers, automatically meter their usage of AWS services, have Amazon bill them based on pricing you set, and collect payments.

Quoted: We have designed and implemented the Google File System, a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications. It provides fault tolerance while running ...

Quoted: For many years a number of our servers have been housed in a facility operated by Level(3) Communications located in a building owned by the Seattle Times. The facility was once state-of-the-art but has, over the years, suffered due to customer growth and limited power and cooling capacity.