No, this is not another tutorial on using Solr/ElasticSearch/Sphinx/Lucene. Imagine that none of these existed and you need a search engine for your shiny new eCommerce startup. What would you do? Build your own search engine, of course. I’ll go over what it would take to do that. more

We would like to share some of the learnings from scaling PHP to millions of requests per day at Flipkart.com more

CAP Theorem is everywhere: "Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance — choose any two!” But it is oversimplified and misunderstood more often than not. CAP’s consistency isn’t what most people think it is; CAP’s availability isn’t what most people think it is; what does partition-tolerance even mean? more

Understand what are some useful metrics to monitor the health of stream processing jobs (such as Apache Storm topologies) when they are deployed in production. Also get some ideas on how to capture these metrics (including suggestions for libraries & tools), and how to proactively mitigate the problems from escalating. more