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This is just to delicious a parallel to pass up. Here we have Google building a new four story datacenter Scaling Up: Google Building Four-Story Data Centers: And here we have a new vertical farm from AeroFarms: Both have racks of consumables. One is a rack of bits, the other
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Juno: 165,000mph, 1.7 billion miles, missed orbit by 10 miles. Dang buggy software. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * $3B: damages awarded to HP from Oracle; 37%: when to stop looking through your search period;
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If Google were created from scratch today, much of it would be learned, not coded. Around 10% of Google's 25,000 developers are proficient in ML; it should be 100% -- Jeff Dean Like the weather, everybody complains about programming, but nobody does anything about it. That’s
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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: If you can't explain it with Legos then you don't really understand it.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 700 trillion: more pixels in Google's Satellite Map; 9,000km: length of
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Fewer companies know how to build world spanning distributed services than there are countries with nuclear weapons. Facebook is one of those companies and Facebook Live, Facebook’s new live video streaming product, is one one of those services. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: The big decision we made was to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A complete and accurate demonstration of the internals of a software system.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 79: podcasts for developers; 100 million: daily voice calls made on WhatsApp; 2,000; cars Tesla builds each week;
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There’s a war between two visions of how the ubiquitous AI assisted future will be rendered: on the cloud or on the device. And as with any great drama it helps the story along if we have two archetypal antagonists. On the cloud side we have Google. On the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: You've seen the Netflix Death Star microservices map. Here's a map of microbes conversing on your skin.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 4281: # of unread articles in my HackerNews feed; 23%: of
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This article will touch upon how Kraken.io built and scaled an image optimization platform which serves millions of requests per day, with the goal of maintaining high performance at all times while keeping costs as low as possible. We present our infrastructure as it is in its current state
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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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Who's Hiring? Site Reliability Engineer Manager. We at Spotify are looking for an engineering leader (Chapter Lead) to manage the NYC part of the Site Reliability Engineering team. This team works with the infrastructure that powers the music service used by millions of users, built by hundreds of