Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big
"So, how much experience do you have with Big Data and Hadoop?" they asked me. I told them that I use Hadoop all the time, but rarely for jobs larger than a few TB. I'm basically a big data neophite - I know the concepts, I've written code, but never at scale.
How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us
Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
On Friday, we migrated Soundslice from Heroku to direct use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) . I'm very, very happy with this change and want to spread the word about how we did it and why you should consider it if you're in a similar position.
GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
There’s potential for massive profits: most customers of shared hosting and VPSes never come anywhere near their resource allocations so the machines can be extremely oversold, and most dedicated-server customers keep paying the “new” price of the server every month for years after its value has plummeted through the…
Air Gaps
Since I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA. The advice I shared included using Tor, preferring certain cryptography over others, and using public-domain encryption wherever possible. I also recommended using an air gap, which physically…
Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance
Yesterday, one of our customers let us know about significant performance issues they have experienced on Heroku. They raised an important issue and I want
Go After 2 Years in Production
After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one of the first companies
How long do disk drives last?
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update
Over the past couple of years Heroku customers have occasionally reported unexplained latency on Heroku. There are many causes of latency—some of them have
Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites
34.9% of the top 1000 web sites rely on Nginx. That makes it the most trusted web server on high traffic sites, just ahead of Apache.
Introducing Heka
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, ...
The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
Explore thought leadership, industry insights, and other resources related to cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns.