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Lambda Architecture Principles

"Lambda Architecture" (introduced by Nathan Marz) has gained a lot of traction recently. Fundamentally, it is a set of design pat...

Deploying a large scale system nowadays is quite different from before when data center is the only choice. A traditional deployment exerci...

As more and more data being collected everywhere from pretty much everything a user do, such as transactions activities, social interactions...

Hadoop Map/Reduce model is very good in processing large amount of data in parallel. It provides a general partitioning mechanism (based o...

Looking back after 2.5 years since my previous post on scalable system design techniques , I've observed an emergence of a set of common...

Some notes about Memcached. Here is its architecture. How it works ? Memcached is organized as a farm of N servers. The storage model can ...

We explore the Map/Reduce approach to turn sequential algorithm into parallel Map/Reduce Overview Since the "reduce" operation ne...

Based on the same architectural pattern of the web, "REST" has a growing dominance of the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) impl...

A classical large scale web site typically have multiple data centers in geographically distributed locations. Each data center will typical...

Database is typically the last piece of the puzzle of the scalability problem. There are some common techniques to scale the DB tire Indexi...