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Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, and Share-Nothing Resources

Presented by Adam Wiggins on Apr 20, 2010 Length 00:39:55     Download: MP3
Sections
Architecture & Design
Topics
Performance & Scalability ,
Architecture
Tags
Redis ,
CouchDB ,
Hadoop ,
RabbitMQ ,
QCon San Francisco 2009 ,
Scalability ,
QCon ,
Memcached ,
Heroku ,
Erlang
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Summary
Adam Wiggins believes that now is the time of horizontal scalability achieved by using resources that are transient, shardable and share nothing with other resources. He gives as example several applications and a language: memcached, CouchDB, Hadoop, Redis, Varnish, RabbitMQ, Erlang, detailing how each one applies those principles.

Bio
Adam Wiggins is an entrepreneur, Rubyist and open source advocate. His current venture is Heroku, the instant deployment platform for Ruby and Rails. He blogs about technology and business at: http://adam.blog.heroku.com/

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Good stuff! by Nirmalya Sengupta Posted
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    Good stuff!

    by Nirmalya Sengupta

    Adam,

    Indeed you stuffed a lot in that presentation, but it sure gives a good overview of what's involved. I am using a technology which is similar, at least in principle - called RedDwarf. Not sure if you have had a look at it, but it claims to provide all the three cornerstones of horizontal scalability that you have elucidated.

    Thanks for a great presentation.

    Nirmalya
    India

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