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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

As part of our benchmarking we recently decided to run a test designed to validate our tooling and automation scalability as well as the performance characteristics of Cassandra. Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We havent tried that option yet.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.