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Hey, it's HighScalability time: An alternate universe where Zeppelins rule the sky. 1929. (@AeroDork) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 15%: Facebook's reduction in latency using HTTP2's server push; 1.9x: nanotube transistors outperform silicon; 200: projectors
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This is guest post by Drew Paroski, architect and engineering manager at MemSQL. Previously he worked at Facebook and developed HHVM, the popular real-time PHP compiler used across the company’s web scale application. Achieving maximum software efficiency through native code generation can bring superior scaling and performance to any
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Spectacular iconic drawing of Aurora Borealis as observed in 1872. (Drawings vs. NASA Images) * 4,000 GB: projected bandwidth used per autonomous vehicle per day; 100K: photos of US national parks; 14 terabytes: code on Github in 1 billion files held in 400K repositories;
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We’ve seen computation using slime mold, soap film, water droplets, there’s even a 10,000 Domino Computer. Now DNA can do math In a test tube. Using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It’s not fast. Calculations can take hours. The upside: they are tiny and can work
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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: The Pixar render farm in 1995 is half of an iPhone (@BenedictEvans) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 33.0%: of all retail goods sold online in the US are sold on Amazon; 110.9 million: monthly
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Failover does not cut it anymore. You need an ALWAYS ON architecture with multiple data centers.-- Martin Van Ryswyk, VP of Engineering at DataStax Failover, switching to a redundant or standby system when a component fails, has a long and checkered history as a way of dealing with failure.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Modern art? Nope. Pancreatic cancer revealed by fluorescent labeling. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 4: SpaceX rocket landings at sea; 32TB: 3D Vertical NAND Flash; 10x: compute power for deep learning as the best of today’
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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
How did Paypal take a billion hits a day system that might traditionally run on a 100s of VMs and shrink it down to run on 8 VMs, stay responsive even at 90% CPU, at transaction densities Paypal has never seen before, with jobs that take 1/10th the time,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The big middle finger to the Olympic Committee. They pulled this video of the incredibly beautiful Olympic cauldron at Rio. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 25 years ago: the first website went online; $236M: Pokemon Go
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I have dozens if not hundreds of half finished articles and snippets of ideas in the haunted house that is my Google Docs. Walking the house around midnight, with the lights turned off course, I stumbled upon one ghost that has been haunting me since 2012. It is time to