Google – Site Reliability Engineering
The Google SRE book is now online, for free
A server with 24 years of uptime
wow. Stratus fault-tolerant systems ftw. ‘This is a fault tolerant server, which means that hardware components are redundant. Over the years, disk drives, power supplies and some other components have been replaced but Hogan estimates that close to 80% of the system is original.’ (via internetofshit, which this isn’t)
Evolving MySQL Compression – Part 2 | Pinterest Engineering
generating a near-optimal external dictionary for Zlib deflate compression