Posts tagged scalability

35% Faster Than The Filesystem

An interesting study of performance. It seems hard to believe.

Getting Started · mperham/sidekiq Wiki

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby. Contribute to mperham/sidekiq development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Basics of Database Sharding - Brent Ozar Unlimited®

There are many ways to scale out your database; many of these techniques require advanced management and expensive add-ons or editions. Database sharding is a flexible way of scaling out a database. In this presentation, Jeremiah Peschka explains how to scale out using database sharding, covers basic techniques, and shares some of the pitfalls. This...

Sharding your database

I’m increasingly encountering users on Heroku that are encountering the need to shard their data. For most users this is something you delay as long as possible as you can generally go for sometime before you have to worry about it. Additionally scaling up your database is often a reasonable approach early on and something I encourage as a starting point as scaling up is easy to do with regards to databases. However, for the 1% of users that do need to shard when the time comes many are left wondering where to start, hence the following guide.

Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes - Dare Obasanjo

OpiniDatabase sharding is the process of splitting up a database across multiple machines to improve the scalability of an application. The justification for database sharding is that after a certain scale point it is cheaper and more feasible to scale a site horizontally by adding more machines than to grow it vertically by adding beefier servers.

Scalable architecture without magic (and how to build it if you’re not Google)

Scalability is considered a hard problem to tackle. It’s always presented like it’s something magical done with secret, special tools that only big, million ...

Scaling relational SQL databases

A list of things that we can do when we need to scale a SQL database.

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ferd.ca -> Queues Don't Fix Overload

Really Excellent article about queues, overloads, bottlenecks and architecture

How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild

How Microservices Saved the Internet – Hacker Noon

Applying the Universal Scalability Law to organisations | the morning paper

Redis streams as a pure data structure

Really really interesting use case for REDIS, and a great scalability pattern

Scaling a Ruby on Rails app on Heroku

You know I’m into scalability right now. Here’s a short article with lots of the basics.

Podcast: Can Machine Learning Solve the Challenges of Cloud Computing? | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) | Brandeis University

Good introduction to Cloud Computing and Machine Learning

Multiple Databases with Active Record — Ruby on Rails Guides

The new rails guide on multi databases in activerecord

ongoing by Tim Bray · On Sharding

Always great to see another clarification of this important technique.

Scaling to 100k Users | Alex Pareto

Scaling is an important topic that I care about. Here’s one person’s guide to making it to 100k. It’s a very complicated topic.