InfoQ Homepage Scalability Content on InfoQ
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With Great Scalability Comes Great Responsibility
Dana Engebretson covers the contextual pros and cons of a number of architectural patterns given real world scalability constraints.
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Custom App Auto-Scaler Using Cloud Controller API
Chris Decelles demos building a custom application auto-scaler using the Cloud Foundry’s controller API.
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Scaling Marketplaces at Thumbtack
Nate Kupp shares some of Thumbtack’s key learnings on their journey to scale and their future with fully-managed systems.
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NDBench: Benchmarking Microservices at Scale
Vinay Chella and Ioannis Papapanagiotou discuss Netflix's Cloud benchmark system, how it was integrated with their release cycle, showcasing how multiple instances can be monitored from a single UI.
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Getting Data Science to Production
Sarah Aerni covers the nuts and bolts of the Einstein Platform, a system that enables the automation and scaling of Artificial Intelligence to 1000s of customers, each with multiple models.
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ML for Question and Answer Understanding @Quora
Nikhil Dandekar discusses how Quora extracts intelligence from questions using machine learning, including question-topic labeling, removing duplicate questions, ranking questions & answers, and more.
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Scaling Slack
Bing Wei examines the limitations that Slack's back-end ran into and how they overcame them to scale from supporting small teams to serving large organizations of hundreds and thousands of users.
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Handling Billions of Edges in a Graph Database
Michael Hackstein discusses graph databases, the current scalability problems and their solutions.
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Scale @Reddit Triple Team Size w/o Losing Control
Nick Caldwell discusses his engineering team's approach to Agile development as they scaled from 40 to 120 engineers.
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The Anatomy of a Distributed System
Tyler McMullen talks through the components and design of a real system, built to perform very high volumes of health checks, done across a cluster of machines for reliability and scalability.
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Deep Learning @Google Scale: Smart Reply in Inbox
Anjuli Kannan describes the algorithmic, scaling, deployment considerations involved in a an application of cutting-edge deep learning in a user-facing product: the Smart Reply feature of Google Inbox
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Loquat: A Design for Large-scale Distributed Applications
Christopher Meiklejohn introduces Loqaut, a design for large-scale actor programming on the Erlang virtual machine.