Storage Infrastructure Behind Facebook Messages
october 2011 by jm
HBase and Haystack; all data LZO-compressed; very interesting approach to testing -- they 'shadow the real production workload into the test cluster to test before going into production'. This catches a 'high percentage' of issues before production. nice
testing
shadowing
haystack
hbase
facebook
scalability
lzo
messaging
sms
via:james-hamilton
october 2011 by jm
John Graham-Cumming: The Myth of the Boy Wizard
september 2010 by jm
JGC on the Haystack mess. bad journalism by The Guardian, Newsweek and the Beeb, basically, single-sourcing articles without any corroborating backup from domain experts
journalism
haystack
the-grauniad
newsweek
bbc
news
cpj
jgc
from delicious
september 2010 by jm
John Graham-Cumming: Shut up and ship
august 2010 by jm
on "Haystack", a vaporous censorship-evading product aimed at Iran's internet surveillance, which as of yet is a site soliciting donations and a lot of press, and not a lot of techie details
haystack
privacy
censorship
filtering
surveillance
jgc
crypto
open-source
from delicious
august 2010 by jm
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