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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Ever feel like howling at the universe? (Greg Rakozy) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 10 billion: API calls made every second in Google datacenters; $767,758,000,000: collected by Apple on iPhones sold to the
Yandex.Metrica is the world's second largest web analytics system. Metrica takes in a stream of data representing events that took place on sites or on apps. Our task is to process this data and present it in an analyzable form. Processing the data in itself is not
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Earth received Cassini’s final signal at 7:55am ET. Let's bid a fond farewell. After a 13-year tour of duty, job well done! If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 12.9 million: DynamoDB requests
Thanks to zero marginal cost digital production methods, we're seeing content markets—for the first time—develop in conditions free from supply and price constraints. In the process we've learned something: consumers have an unquenchable thirst for new content; content creators are willing to oblige with
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Who's Hiring? * Close.io is a ~25 person fully remote team that is profitable and building a product our customers love! We’re hiring Senior Backend Developers to join our team. Our backend tech stack currently includes Python (Flask, Gunicorn, TaskTiger), Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis running in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: May you live in interesting times. China games swarming drone attacks. Portable EMP anyone? (Tech in Asia) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 100GB: entire corpus of articles written at the NY Times; 80GB: data for one
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Obviously, cloud native is simplicity itself. (Cloud Native Landscape Project) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * $10: price for IPv4 address (and falling); 10-15%: better IPv6 network performance; 711M: Record Onliner Spambot Dump; 41.4-tesla: strongest resistive
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Who's Hiring? * Close.io is a ~25 person fully remote team that is profitable and building a product our customers love! We’re hiring Senior Backend Developers to join our team. Our backend tech stack currently includes Python (Flask, Gunicorn, TaskTiger), Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis running in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: View of the total solar eclipse from a hill top near Madras Oregon, August 21, 2017. As totality approaches, dragons gorge on sun flesh; darkness cleaves the day; a chill chases away the heat; all becomes still. Contact made! Diamonds glitter; beads sparkle; shadow
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Sorry about missing last week, but my birthday won out over working: Ouch! @john_overholt: My actual life is now a science exhibit about the primitive conditions of the past. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1PB: SSD in 1U chassis; 90%: savings
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Who's Hiring? * Close.io is a ~25 person fully remote team that is profitable and building a product our customers love! We’re hiring Senior Backend Developers to join our team. Our backend tech stack currently includes Python (Flask, Gunicorn, TaskTiger), Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis running in
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Enterprises won't move to the cloud. If they do, it's tantamount to admitting your IT group sucks. That has been the common wisdom. Morningstar, an investment research provider, is moving to the cloud and they're about as enterprisey as it gets. And they don&