• Facebook Ready to Begin Second Data Center in Iowa

  Facebook hasn't even finished its first massive data center building in Altoona, Iowa. But the social networking company is ready to begin construction on a second 476,000 square foot building. Read More

• How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds Latency

  How do you add realtime functionality to a web scale application? That's what Adam Hitchcock , a Software Engineer at Disqus talks about in an excellent talk:  Making DISQUS Realtime  ( slides ). Disqus had to take their commenting system and add realtime capabilities to it. Not something…

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• Testing Cassandra 1000 Nodes at a Time

  Testing at Scale Working as Software Engineers in Test at Datastax requires that we demonstrate that Datastax Enterprise is able to scale to handle "Big Data" but what does "Big Data" really mean?

• Dimension Data Acquires Nexus, Plans to Quadruple Data Center Business

  Global IT firm Dimension Data announced that it has acquired Valencia, California IT company Nexus, and plans to quadruple its data center business to $4 billion in the next five years. Read More

• PowerAssure Updates EM/5 to Integrate with ServiceNow

  Power Assure has introduced EM/5, the latest iteration of its data center monitoring software, which features integration with IT automation solutions from ServiceNow. Read More

• Follow up to the investigation results

  Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I'm sorry. GitHub has a reputation for being transparent and taking responsibility for our actions, but last week we did neither.…

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• Important Change - Managing Your AWS Secret Access Keys

  Last month I urged you to download your secret access key(s) for your AWS (root) account in advance of a planned change in our access model. We have implemented the change and you can no longer retrieve existing secret access...