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Learn to build bigger, faster, and more reliable websites with insights into high scalability practices.

May 9, 2024  18:55:21
This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Originally developed in LinkedIn during 2011, Apache Kafka is one of the most popular open-source Apache projects out there.

March 26, 2024  15:32:38
This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author.

In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji’s allow fans at home to rapidly express

March 14, 2024  09:53:07
This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author.

On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when

March 6, 2024  16:15:44
This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn.

AWS S3 is a service every engineer is familiar with.

It’s the service that popularized the notion of cold-storage to

August 16, 2023  16:05:12

This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly

July 16, 2023  15:42:21

Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We’ve been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here are four things we

July 16, 2023  15:38:02

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What Is Gossip Protocol?

The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]:

  • maintaining the system state (liveness of nodes)
  • communication
February 22, 2023  16:39:15

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You can view the original article Consistent hashing explained on systemdesign.one website.

How does consistent hashing work?

At a high level, consistent hashing performs the following operations:

  1. The output of the hash
December 16, 2022  17:04:08

DALL-E picture generated from the answer.

I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed.

Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the

December 2, 2022  17:08:30

Never fear, HighScalability is here!

1958: An engineer wiring an early IBM computer 2021: An engineer wiring an early IBM quantum computer. @enclanglement

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October 24, 2022  10:52:23

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer.

Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services.

July 18, 2022  13:38:51

Who's Hiring?

  • Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and
July 11, 2022  15:11:55

Never fear, HighScalability is here!


Every cell a universe. Most detailed image of a human cell to date. @microscopicture

Other images considered: one byte of RAM in 1946; visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes; Cloudflare using lava lamps to generate cryptographic keys; 5MB of data looked like in 1966

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June 10, 2022  14:39:03

Who's Hiring?

  • Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and
May 4, 2022  07:35:24

Who's Hiring?

  • Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and