Comments on: How To Make Life Suck Less (While Making Scalable Systems) http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/ Scalability, Startups, and Computer Science. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scale and Scalability: Rethinking the Most Overused IT System Selling Point for the Cloud Era « IT Expert Voice http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 Scale and Scalability: Rethinking the Most Overused IT System Selling Point for the Cloud Era « IT Expert Voice Mon, 17 May 2010 16:07:18 +0000 http://www.roadtofailure.com/?p=78#comment-1877 [...] that system re-architects face today, Bradford Stephens offers a frame of mind that he calls, “How to Make Life Suck Less.” It’s based on a simple concept: Failure will happen. Thus, plan for redundancy such that when [...] [...] that system re-architects face today, Bradford Stephens offers a frame of mind that he calls, “How to Make Life Suck Less.” It’s based on a simple concept: Failure will happen. Thus, plan for redundancy such that when [...]

]]> By: Programming Philosophy Links « streamhacker.com http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-1142 Programming Philosophy Links « streamhacker.com Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:39:44 +0000 http://www.roadtofailure.com/?p=78#comment-1142 [...] Programmer 97-thingsIt’s OK Not to Write Unit TestsPsychology and Security Resource PageHow To Make Life Suck Less (While Making Scalable Systems)The myth of “undesigned”The Problem with Design and ImplementationRelated Reading:Art of [...] [...] Programmer 97-thingsIt’s OK Not to Write Unit TestsPsychology and Security Resource PageHow To Make Life Suck Less (While Making Scalable Systems)The myth of “undesigned”The Problem with Design and ImplementationRelated Reading:Art of [...]

]]> By: Bradford http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-462 Bradford Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:41:14 +0000 http://www.roadtofailure.com/?p=78#comment-462 For the pedants in the audience, I changed the term "overloaded" to "unavailable". For the pedants in the audience, I changed the term “overloaded” to “unavailable”.

]]> By: Simon http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Simon Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:47 +0000 http://www.roadtofailure.com/?p=78#comment-458 Semantically looks like you have no idea what you're talking about. Well... CPU overload because of IO-wait, funny. Semantically looks like you have no idea what you’re talking about. Well… CPU overload because of IO-wait, funny.

]]> By: Bradford http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Bradford Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:49:37 +0000 http://www.roadtofailure.com/?p=78#comment-324 Semantically, true... but the CPU is still pretty useless at that point anyway :) Semantically, true… but the CPU is still pretty useless at that point anyway :)

]]> By: Jacques Mattheij http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Jacques Mattheij Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:31:58 +0000 http://www.roadtofailure.com/?p=78#comment-323 What on earth do you mean by the CPU being overloaded because it is waiting for IO ? IO starvation means the CPU is *underused* not *overused*. What on earth do you mean by the CPU being overloaded because it is waiting for IO ?

IO starvation means the CPU is *underused* not *overused*.

]]> By: Thomas Koch (thkoch) 's status on Thursday, 10-Sep-09 13:54:49 UTC - Identi.ca http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Thomas Koch (thkoch) 's status on Thursday, 10-Sep-09 13:54:49 UTC - Identi.ca Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:54:59 +0000 http://www.roadtofailure.com/?p=78#comment-197 [...] #scalable #hadoop http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/ [...] [...] #scalable #hadoop http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/09/09/how-to-make-life-suck-less-while-making-scalable-systems/ [...]

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