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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Which do you see: Machines freeing people? Lost jobs? Slavery? Hyperactive Skittles? If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * year 1899: “Nobody has to use the Internet”; 12MPH: Speed news of Lincoln's assassination traveled the US;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: After 20 years, Cassini will not go gently into that good night, it will burn and rave at close of day. (nasa) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 10^15: synapses activated per second in human brain
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Who's Hiring? * Pier 1 Imports is looking for an amazing Sr. Website Engineer to join our growing team! Our customer continues to evolve the way she prefers to shop, speak to, and engage with us at Pier 1 Imports. Driving us to innovate more ways to surprise and
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This is a guest post by Apurva Davé, who is part of the product team at Sysdig. Having worked with hundreds of customers on building a monitoring stack for their containerized environments, we’ve learned a thing or two about what works and what doesn’t. The outcomes might surprise
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Visualization of the magic system behind software infrastructure. (eyezmaze, @ThePracticalDev) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 10-20: aminoacids can be made per second; 64800x: faster DDL Aurora vs MySQL; 25 TFLOPS: cap for F1 simulations; 15x to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What lies beneath? Networks...of blood vessels. (Wellcome Image Awards) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 5000: node (150,000 pod) clusters in Kubernetes 1.6; 15 years: time to @spacex launch with a recycled rocket booster;
Original article available at https://habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/323870/ I’d like to share with you an article based on my talk at Tarantool Meetup(the video is in Russian, though). It’s a short story of why Mamba, one of the biggest dating websites in the world
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Who's Hiring? * Etleap is looking for Senior Data Engineers to build the next-generation ETL solution. Data analytics teams need solid infrastructure and great ETL tools to be successful. It shouldn't take a CS degree to use big data effectively, and abstracting away the difficult parts is
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When Adrian Cockroft—the guy who helped put the loud in Cloud through his energetic evangelism of Cloud Native and Microservice architectures—talks about what’s next, it pays to listen. And you can listen, here’s a fascinating forward looking talk he gave at microXchg 2017: Shrinking Microservices to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is real and oh so eerie. Custom microscope takes a 33 hour time lapse of a tadpole egg dividing. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 40Gbit/s: indoor optical wireless networks; 15%: energy produced by wind
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Can it be a coincidence trapping autonomous cars is exactly how demons are trapped on Supernatural? If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * billion billion: exascale operations per second; 250ms: connection time saved by zero round trip time
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