What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT.

DALL-E picture generated from the answer. I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed. Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the kind of answer delivered with a radiant smile calculated...

Dec 2022

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 2nd, 2022

Never fear, HighScalability is here!   1958: An engineer wiring an early IBM computer 2021: An engineer wiring an early IBM quantum computer. @enclanglement   My Stuff: I'm proud to announce a completely updated and expanded version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10! This version adds 2x more coverage, with special coverage of AWS, Azure,...

Dec 2022

The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

  There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. Vertical separation would be new to the cloud industry....

Oct 2022

Announcing: A Completely New and Updated Version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10

I've been working hard on a completely updated version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 and I'm happy to announce it's ready! You can buy version 2.0 at: https://www.amazon.com/Explain-Cloud-Like-Im-10-ebook/dp/B0765C4SNR.   If you've already bought, Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10, then you should just be able to update to the new version for free....

Oct 2022

Sponsored Post: G-Core Labs, Close, Wynter, Pinecone, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

Who's Hiring?  Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to...

Jul 2022

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 11th, 2022

Never fear, HighScalability is here! Every cell a universe. Most detailed image of a human cell to date. @microscopicture Other images considered: one byte of RAM in 1946; visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes; Cloudflare using lava lamps to generate cryptographic keys; 5MB of data looked like in 1966 My Stuff: Love this Stuff?...

Jul 2022

Sponsored Post: G-Core Labs, Close, Wynter, Pinecone, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

Who's Hiring?  Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to...

Jun 2022

Sponsored Post: Close, Wynter, Pinecone, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

Who's Hiring?  Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to...

May 2022

Sponsored Post: Wynter, Pinecone, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

Who's Hiring?  Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. Participate in research surveys, get paid ($90-$180/hr) for your feedback and comments. Super low key commitment, 10-15 mins per survey. Learn more and sign up. DevOps Engineer: At Kinsta, we set out to create the best managed hosting...

Feb 2022

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 28th, 2022

Never fear, HighScalability is here! Think your software diagram is complex? This is a single cell modeled using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. Gael McGill My Stuff: Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Know anyone who needs to fix their cloud-obliviousness?...

Jan 2022