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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A pattern from the collective unconscious of the universe. Scott Kelly's brilliant Year in Space Photos. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * $1.5 million: new iOS hack bug bounty; 120 Terabits per second: Google
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For a visual of the growth Uber is experiencing take a look at the first few seconds of the above video. It will start in the right place. It's from an amazing talk given by Matt Ranney, Chief Systems Architect at Uber and Co-founder of Voxer: What I
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Who's Hiring? IT Security Engineering. At Gusto we are on a mission to create a world where work empowers a better life. As Gusto's IT Security Engineer you'll shape the future of IT security and compliance. We're looking for a strong IT
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The worlds oldest analog computer, from 87 BC, the otherworldly Antikythera mechanism. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 70 billion: facts in Google's knowledge graph; 80 million: monthly visitors to walmart.com; 50%: lower cost
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Everything is a network. Map showing the global genetic interaction network of a cell. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 18: Google can now drink and drive in Washington DC.; $10 billion: cost of a Vision Quest
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If you are Uber and you need to store the location data that is sent out every 30 seconds by both driver and rider apps, what do you do? That’s a lot of real-time data that needs to be used in real-time. Uber’s solution is comprehensive. They built
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Who's Hiring? Spotify is looking for individuals passionate in infrastructure to join our Site Reliability Engineering organization. Spotify SREs design, code, and operate tools and systems to reduce the amount of time and effort necessary for our engineers to scale the world’s best music streaming product to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Will Minority Report for developers really help us program better? (Primitive) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * October 2017: ICANN changes the DNSSEC root keys; $2.91M: cost of running Let's Encrypt; 20%: Amazon convenience
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The struggle for life that kills. Stunning video of bacteria mutating to defeat antibiotics. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 60%: time spent cleaning dirty dirty BigData; 10 million: that's a lot of Raspberry Pi;
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Can small tribes of cooperating smart cars improve overall traffic even if they are not in the majority? Sure, if every car was a self-driving car maybe traffic jams could dissolve like blood clots on anticoagulants, but what about that messy in-between period? It will be some time before smart
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Who's Hiring? Spotify is looking for individuals passionate in infrastructure to join our Site Reliability Engineering organization. Spotify SREs design, code, and operate tools and systems to reduce the amount of time and effort necessary for our engineers to scale the world’s best music streaming product to
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This is a guest post by Jason Bosco, the Dollar Shave Club’s Director of Engineering, Core Platform & Infrastructure, on the infrastructure of its ecommerce technology. With more than 3 million members, Dollar Shave Club will do over $200 million in revenue this year. Although most are familiar with