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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hot rods in space. The Smith Cloud plummets towards our galaxy at nearly 700,000 mph. Vroom! If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 3 of top 5: Stackoverflow questions are about Git; 3,000: four-passenger cars could
Have you ever read a book and wondered how any human could have written something so brilliant? For me it was Lord of the Rings. I despaired that in a hundred lifetimes I could never write a book so rich, so deep, so beautiful. Since then I've learned
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Who's Hiring? * The New York Times is looking for a Software Engineer for its Delivery/Site Reliability Engineering team. You will also be a part of a team responsible for building the tools that ensure that the various systems at The New York Times continue to operate in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A wondrous ethereal mix of technology and art. Experience of "VOID" If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 2+ billion: Google lines of code distributed over 9+ million source files; $3.6 bn: lower Google taxes
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Who's Hiring? * The New York Times is looking for a Software Engineer for its Delivery/Site Reliability Engineering team. You will also be a part of a team responsible for building the tools that ensure that the various systems at The New York Times continue to operate in
Steve Jobs is notorious for hating buttons. Here's Jobs explaining the foulness of buttons during his famous iPhone introduction: What's wrong with their [other phones] user interface? The problem with them is really sort of in the bottom 40. They all have these keyboard that are
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is the entire internet. In 1973! David Newbury found the map going through his dad's old papers. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 2.5 billion+: smartphones on earth; $36,000: loss making a
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This question came in over the Internets. If you have any ideas please consider sharing them if you have the time... I am building a 2 way subscription model I am working on a blockchain project where in I have to built a information/data portal where in I will
This is a guest post by Mihai Rotaru, CTO of MigratoryData. Using the RESTful HTTP request-response approach can become very inefficient for websites requiring real-time communication. We propose a new approach and exemplify it with a well-known feature that requires real-time communication, and which is included by most websites: search
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Here's a 1 TB hard drive in 1937. Twenty workers operated the largest vertical letter file in the world. 4000 SqFt. 3000 drawers, 10 feet long. (from @BrianRoemmele) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 98%
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Who's Hiring? * The New York Times is looking for a Software Engineer for its Delivery/Site Reliability Engineering team. You will also be a part of a team responsible for building the tools that ensure that the various systems at The New York Times continue to operate in
(source) How we treat each other is based on empathy. Empathy is based on shared experience. What happens when we have nothing in common? Systems are now being constructed so we’ll never see certain kinds of information. Each of us live in our own algorithmically created Skinner Box /silo/