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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Modern art? Nope. Pancreatic cancer revealed by fluorescent labeling. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 4: SpaceX rocket landings at sea; 32TB: 3D Vertical NAND Flash; 10x: compute power for deep learning as the best of today’
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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
How did Paypal take a billion hits a day system that might traditionally run on a 100s of VMs and shrink it down to run on 8 VMs, stay responsive even at 90% CPU, at transaction densities Paypal has never seen before, with jobs that take 1/10th the time,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The big middle finger to the Olympic Committee. They pulled this video of the incredibly beautiful Olympic cauldron at Rio. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 25 years ago: the first website went online; $236M: Pokemon Go
Strategy
I have dozens if not hundreds of half finished articles and snippets of ideas in the haunted house that is my Google Docs. Walking the house around midnight, with the lights turned off course, I stumbled upon one ghost that has been haunting me since 2012. It is time to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What does a 107 football field long battery building Gigafactory look like? A lot like a giant Costco. (tour) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 60 billion: Facebook messages per day; 3x: Facebook messages compared to global
There's a meme out there that hardware is dead. Maybe not. Hardware is becoming more specialized as the general purpose CPU can't keep up. The tick-tock cycle created by Moore's law meant designers had a choice: build or buy. Make your own hardware to
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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
cassandra
This is a guest post by Alessandro Pieri, Software Architect at Stream. Try out this 5 minute interactive tutorial to learn more about Stream’s API. Originally built by Facebook in 2009, Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed database designed to handle large amounts of data across a
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Facial tats to disrupt big brother surveillance systems may actually work. Our future?If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 40.4 million: iPhones sold this quarter; 7: number of times Facebook has avoided the IRS; 104: new
serverless
We've been following an increasing ephemerality curve to get more and more utilization out of our big brawny boxes. VMs, VMs in the cloud, containers, containers in the cloud, and now serverless, which looks to be our first native cloud infrastructure. Serverless is said to be about functions,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's not too late London. There's still time to make this happen. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 40%: energy Google saves in datacenters using machine learning; 2.3: times more energy knights