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Cory Doctorow recently authored an article for Nature News called Big data: Welcome to the petacentre in which he discusses three big datacenters, including the Wellcome-Sanger, XS4ALL, and CERN facilities.
As a technologist for a datacenter operator, it’s always fun to read this sort of thing. An excerpt:

I am, admittedly, prone to swooning over a well-designed [...]

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I appreciate a note James Hamilton recently posted entitled Flickr DB Architecture, in which he briefly (and succinctly) describes how Flickr scales their database back-end to support what I refer to as an Internet-scale website. He then goes on to provide a list of links to other notes and articles that describe how other well-known [...]

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My colleague Joe Ammond pointed out a great post on the RightScale blog discussing the Animoto application’s ability to scale dynamically using Amazon cloud services. I’m impressed by what they’ve accomplished, and the article is worth reading. Especially interesting is their use of queues to control how many server instances are required.
What Animoto CTO Stevie [...]

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