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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Stand a top a volcano and survey the universe. (By Shane Black & Judy Schmidt) * 1 million: Airbnb's room inventory; 2 billion: Telegram messages sent daily; Two billion: photos shared daily on Facebook; 10,000: sensors in every Airbus wing * Quotable Quotes:
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by AreteStock Removing friction. That’s what the Apple Watch is good at. Many think watches are a category flop because they don’t have that obvious killer app. Like hot sauce, maybe a watch isn’t something you eat all by itself, but it gives whatever you sprinkle it
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Who's Hiring? * The Cloud Platform team at OpenDNS is building a PaaS for our engineering teams to build and deliver their applications. This is a well rounded team covering software, systems, and network engineering and expect your code to cut across all layers, from the network to the
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This is a guest post by Toby Matejovsky, Director of Engineering at Tapad (@TapadEng). Here at Tapad, scaling our technology strategically has been crucial to our immense growth. Over the last four years we’ve scaled our real-time bidding system to handle hundreds of thousands of queries per second. We’
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Not spooky at all. A 1,000 robot self-organizing flash mob. * 400 ppm: global CO2 concentration; 13.1 billion: distance in light-years of farthest galaxy * Quotable Quotes: * Pied Piper: It’s built on a universal compression engine that stacks on any file, data, video
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This is a guest post by Denis Brækhus and Espen Braastad, developers on the Varnish API Engine from Varnish Software. Varnish has long been used in discriminating backends, so it's interesting to see what they are up to. Varnish Software has just released Varnish API Engine, a high
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This is a guest repost of Ben Stopford's epic post on Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms. A masterful tour through the evolutionary forces that shape how systems adapt to key challenges. As software engineers we are inevitably affected by the tools we surround ourselves with.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Got containers? Gorgeous shot of the CSCL Globe (by Walter Scriptunas II), world's largest container ship: 1,313ft long; 19,000 standard containers. * $3000: Tesla's new 7kWh daily cycle battery. * Quotable Quotes: * @mamund: "Turns out there is nothing about
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"From the dawn of civilization until 2003, humankind generated five exabytes (1 exabytes = 1 billion gigabytes) of data. Now we produce five exabytes every two days and the pace is accelerating." -- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google, August 4, 2010. Where are we going to store the deluge
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Who's Hiring? * The Cloud Platform team at OpenDNS is building a PaaS for our engineering teams to build and deliver their applications. This is a well rounded team covering software, systems, and network engineering and expect your code to cut across all layers, from the network to the
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We must be able to create better complex software systems. That’s that message from Mary Poppendieck in a wonderful far ranging talk she gave at the Craft Conference: New New Software Development Game: Containers, Micro Services. The driving insight is complexity grows nonlinearly with size. The type of system
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A fine tribute on Silicon Valley & hilarious formula evaluating Peter Gregory's positive impact on humanity. * 118/196: nations becoming democracies since mid19th century; $70K: nice minimum wage; 70 million: monthly StackExchange visitors; 1 billion: drone planted trees; 1,000 Years: longest-exposure