Facebook is still leasing data centers and is apparently spending $50M per hear excluding servers: An analysis of Facebook’s spending with data center developers indicates that the company is now paying about $50 million a year to lease data center space, compared to about $20 million when we last analyzed its leases in May 2009. [...]
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Spinn3r is hiring a cool Java engineer here in our San Francisco office. It’s a great position with a super smart bunch of guys. Centrally located right in SOMA (2nd and Howard) and we have an AWESOME office (it’s 102 years old !) Responsibilities: * Maintain our current crawler. * Monitor and implement statistics behind [...]
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Leif (who works for Spinn3r) published a great post on the mySQL relay-log-space-limit variable and using the page cache efficiently: When the SQL thread is not able to keep up, logs will accumulate. You can set the location of your relay logs with the relay-log option; in the default configuration (and many production configurations), the [...]
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This is a bit interesting. USA Today is opening up an API for books and sports salaries: At the moment, the developer site is open to internal developers only. However, USA Today plans to launch it to the public by end of September. The company has already announced two of its upcoming datasets: the Best [...]
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Apparently, Digg performed a big migration from MySQL to Cassandra and a big migration to their new Digg v4 architecture and now their VP of Engineering has been shown the door: Ever since Digg launched its new site design, it’s been plagued with all kinds of trouble, not least of which is that it keeps [...]
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Tagged: bigtable, cassandra, digg, facebook, hadoop, mysql, voldemort
It looks like the new iPhone HDR stuff might violate a few Canon patents: Canon’s looking to change the way you take HDR pictures. Previously, in order to capture images like these, you’d have to combine photos in post. With a new patent, the process will be done in-camera, at the pixel level. High Dynamic [...]
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Well my theory was right. Facebook blocked API access to Apple for an API that is normally open. This is what I said just a few hours ago: If you want to use them at SCALE or have a serious application (like Apple) these companies want you to execute custom terms of service to prevent [...]
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Apple via Steve Jobs is saying that the terms of integration with Facebook were ‘onerous’ so it was dropped at the last moment. We’re hearing reports of people who had access to a Facebook Connect feature in Ping earlier, which didn’t work, and has since been removed. So it looks like Apple really did pull [...]