Fajri Abdillah
Just a list of scaling article
As we're approaching 8 billion page views per month and 45k requests per second, we've learned a couple things about delivering comments to a lot of different people. Disqus is very well known for using Django for almost all of our web traffic, and that continues to be a thing today.
Mailbox has grown unbelievably quickly. During that growth, one performance issue that impacted us was MongoDB's database-level write lock. The amount of time Mailbox's backends were waiting for the write lock was resulting in user-perceived latency.
Mailbox has grown unbelievably quickly. During that growth, one performance issue that impacted us was MongoDB's database-level write lock. The amount of time Mailbox's backends were waiting for the write lock was resulting in user-perceived latency.
Viacom is one of the world's largest media conglomerates and is sitting right at the forefront of one of the hardest problems in data today: how to deal with dynamic video content at an escalating scale.
Superfeedr delivered a total of 22,408,346,028 entries at the time of this article. In the next hour, they will publish almost one million more entries. If you haven't heard of Superfeedr, the service helps publishers and subscribers manage their feeds.
In a recent post, Raffi Kirkorian, VP of Engineering at Twitter, explained how Redis is used at Twitter to support over 30 billion timeline updates per day based on 5000 tweets per second or 400,000,000 tweets per day. There is no doubt, Twitter's infrastructure deals with extremely high scale demands.
When I first started hosting my own sites, I had no idea what caching was or why it was important. Then I wrote a couple of popular blog posts, and my server crashed. Fast forward a few years, and I'm running a few different websites on a few different servers.
UPDATE: This is the third of a three part series on CodeIgniter, Redis, and Socket.IO integration. Please be sure to read the other posts as well. Part 1: A Sample CodeIgniter Application with Login And Session Part 2: Use Redis instead of MySQL for CodeIgniter Session Data Part 3: You are here.
The analytics platform at Twitter has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years in terms of size, complexity, number of users, and variety of use ca
