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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Will Minority Report for developers really help us program better? (Primitive) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * October 2017: ICANN changes the DNSSEC root keys; $2.91M: cost of running Let's Encrypt; 20%: Amazon convenience
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The struggle for life that kills. Stunning video of bacteria mutating to defeat antibiotics. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 60%: time spent cleaning dirty dirty BigData; 10 million: that's a lot of Raspberry Pi;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: An alternate universe where Zeppelins rule the sky. 1929. (@AeroDork) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 15%: Facebook's reduction in latency using HTTP2's server push; 1.9x: nanotube transistors outperform silicon; 200: projectors
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Spectacular iconic drawing of Aurora Borealis as observed in 1872. (Drawings vs. NASA Images) * 4,000 GB: projected bandwidth used per autonomous vehicle per day; 100K: photos of US national parks; 14 terabytes: code on Github in 1 billion files held in 400K repositories;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Pixar render farm in 1995 is half of an iPhone (@BenedictEvans) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 33.0%: of all retail goods sold online in the US are sold on Amazon; 110.9 million: monthly
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: That little smudge on Jupiter is North America (size comparison). If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * <2%: percent of total U.S. electricity consumption used by data centers; $4.99: hourly wage of Amazon Turkers; 8,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Juno: 165,000mph, 1.7 billion miles, missed orbit by 10 miles. Dang buggy software. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * $3B: damages awarded to HP from Oracle; 37%: when to stop looking through your search period;