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(source) How we treat each other is based on empathy. Empathy is based on shared experience. What happens when we have nothing in common? Systems are now being constructed so we’ll never see certain kinds of information. Each of us live in our own algorithmically created Skinner Box /silo/
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A phrase you've probably heard a lot this week: AWS announces...If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 18 minutes: latency to Mars; 100TB: biggest dynamodb table; 55M: visits to Kaiser were virtual; $2 Billion: yearly
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This is a guest repost Barzan Mozafari, an assistant professor at University of Michigan and an advisor to a new startup, snappydata.io, that recently launched an open source OLTP + OLAP Database built on Spark. Almost everyone these days is complaining about performance in one way or another. It’s
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Margaret Hamilton was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for writing Apollo guidance software. Oddly, she's absent from best programmers of all time lists.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 98 seconds: before camera
Sergey Ignatchenko continues his excellent book series with a new chapter on databases. This is a guest repost. The idea of single-write-connection is used extensively in the post, as it's defined elsewhere I asked Sergey for a definition so the article would make a little more sense... As
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Now you don't have to shrink yourself to see inside a computer. Here's a fully functional 16-bit computer that's over 26 square feet huge! Bighex machine. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on
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The original contributor to this article was David Yu, Distributed Systems Engineer at Optimizely. Our mission at Optimizely is to help decision makers turn data into action. This requires us to move data with speed and reliability. We track billions of user events, such as page views, clicks and custom
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This is a guest post by Urban Airship. Contributors: Adam Lowry, Sean Moran, Mike Herrick, Lisa Orr, Todd Johnson, Christine Ciandrini, Ashish Warty, Nick Adlard, Mele Sax-Barnett, Niall Kelly, Graham Forest, and Gavin McQuillan Urban Airship is trusted by thousands of businesses looking to grow with mobile. Urban Airship is
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hacking recognition systems with fashion. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 9 teraflops: PC GPU performance for VR rendering; 1.75 million requests per second: DDoS attack from cameras; 5GB/mo: average data consumption in the US;
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Who's Hiring? * The New York Times is looking for a Software Engineer for its Delivery/Site Reliability Engineering team. You will also be a part of a team responsible for building the tools that ensure that the various systems at The New York Times continue to operate in