Monthly Archives: February 2014

A glimpse into the wormhole

The High Scalability blog posted a link to Facebook’s new posts search system and the Facebook Notes written about it by a member of the engineering team. One of the sections mentioned the Wormhole publish/subscribe system that they developed to push data across multiple data centres in near real time. At a very basic level, […]

February 17, 2014 – 9:41 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval, Programming | Comments (0)

Random Links

The Observer’s New Review section had a short piece on the British Library’s Beautiful Science exhibition, “How visualising data has changed life … and saved lives“. That section also ran a larger article on the new wave of small press magazines and their design aesthetic. The common theme seems to be having a focus. Wondering […]

February 16, 2014 – 2:06 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in weeknotes | Comments (0)