InfoQ Homepage Performance & Scalability Content on InfoQ
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High Performance Reactive Applications with Vert.x
Tim Fox discusses the design principles and motivation behind Vert.x and why the future is reactive.
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Wix Architecture at Scale
Aviran Mordo introduces Wix's architecture, a highly available eventually consistent system, along with patterns for rendering many websites with a relatively small number of servers.
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10 Billion a Day, 100 Milliseconds Per: Monitoring Real-Time Bidding at AdRoll
Brian Troutwine shares insight on using Erlang for a highly concurrent and very low latency bidding system implemented by Adroll.
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Web & Database Load Testing with JMeter
Michael Dowden introduces JMeter and explains how to develop a data-driven methodology to determine some of the limits of a web application: max number of concurrent users, bottlenecks, etc.
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The Haxl Project at Facebook
Simon Marlow describes a concurrency-based system built with Haskell that allows front-end programmers to write business logic to access all the back-end services in a concise and consistent way.
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Fault Tolerance 101
Joe Armstrong discusses fault tolerant systems, summarizing the key features of Erlang and showing how they can be used for programming fault-tolerant and scalable systems on multi-core clusters.
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A Call for Sanity in NoSQL
Nathan Marz discusses building NoSQL-based data systems that are scalable and easy to reason about.
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Patterns for Scalable Web Services in Go
Richard Crowley introduces Go standard library's HTTP packages, the relationship between JSON and Go's data structures, and Go's support for reflection, useful to create safe APIs.
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Deploying the Languages of the Future on Cloud Foundry
Andrew Crump shows how to deploy and scale applications written in a variety of languages (including Clojure and Erlang) to Cloud Foundry.
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Summly: An Award Winning Mobile App's Journey to the Cloud with Five-9s Availability on a Shoestring Budget
Eugene Ciurana describes the architectural choices, servers configuration, database, and caching systems that enabled Summly to achieve Five-9-Availability with cross-continental deployments.
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Go Circuit: Distributing the Go Language and Runtime
Petar Maymounkov introduces Go Circuit, a system that reduces the human development and sustenance costs of complex massively-scaled systems nearly to the level of their single-process counterparts.
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Scale Effects and other Stories
Crista Lopes discusses if scale affects the internal structure of projects and whether the popularity of libraries is correlated with internal software metrics such as bug density.