Say what you will about Satya Nadella, but don’t say he doesn’t understand the value of Microsoft’s technology. In an era where it’s competing against Google and Amazon to become the… Read more »
Google spend a little less on infrastructure during the fourth quarter than during the third quarter, but it still spent a lot. Like $2.25 billion a lot. Read more »
Netflix has open sourced a tool called Suro that collects event data from disparate application servers before sending them to other data platforms such as Hadoop and Elasticsearch. It’s more big… Read more »
Facebook has open sourced a new embedded database called RocksDB that’s meant to take advantage of all the performance flash has to offer, from right on the application server. It might… Read more »
Amazon Web Services VP and Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton explained during a session at the AWS re:Invent conference how the cloud provider keeps costs as low as possible and innovation as… Read more »
Dropbox has hired Kevin Park as its new head of technical operations and IT. Park was at Facebook from 2006 until 2011, where he was a director of technical operations. This… Read more »
Airbnb open sourced a new tool called SmartStack that automates the management of the company’s various services. If they’re healthy, SmartStack facilitates communications. If they’re not, it knows and it takes… Read more »
Facebook has one of the largest, if not the largest, MySQL installations in the world, and has created a tool to keep that system online with as little human intervention as… Read more »
Google spent nearly $2.3 billion on infrastructure in the third quarter — nearly 50 percent more than last quarter and nearly three times the third quarter of 2012. Read more »
Twitter’s IPO filing is full of nuggets about the company’s revenue and overall business, including our first real look into the company’s data centers. We still don’t know where they are,… Read more »