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Hey, it's HighScalability time: If you can't explain it with Legos then you don't really understand it.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 700 trillion: more pixels in Google's Satellite Map; 9,000km: length of
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A complete and accurate demonstration of the internals of a software system.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 79: podcasts for developers; 100 million: daily voice calls made on WhatsApp; 2,000; cars Tesla builds each week;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: You've seen the Netflix Death Star microservices map. Here's a map of microbes conversing on your skin.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 4281: # of unread articles in my HackerNews feed; 23%: of
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Who wants in on the over? We are not alone if the probability a habitable zone planet develops a technological species is larger than 10-24.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 100,000+: bare metal servers run
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Universe in one image (Pablo Budassi). Imagine an ancient being leaning over, desperately scrying to figure out what they have wrought.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 50 minutes: Facebook daily average use; 1.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A perfect 10. Really stuck that landing. Nadia Comaneci approves.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * $1B: Supercell’s Clash Royale projected annual haul; 3x: Messenger and WhatsApp send more messages than SMS; 20%: of
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What happens when Beyoncé meets eCommerce? Ring the alarm.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * $14 billion: one day of purchases on Alibaba; 47 megawatts: Microsoft's new data center space for its MegaCloud;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Time for a little drone envy. Sea Hunter, 132 foot autonomous surface vessel.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 12,000: base pairs in the largest biological circuit ever built; 3x: places GitHub data is
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Hey, this is no joke, it's HighScalability time: A glorious battle in EVE. Tens of thousands of pilots fighting tens of thousands of pilots in a real time all on a single shard.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon.
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Did you know there's a field called computational aesthetics? Neither did I. It's cool though.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 51%: of billion-dollar startups founded by immigrants; 2.8 billion: Twitter metric ingestion service writes per
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We come in peace. 5,000 years of battles mapped from Wikipedia. Maybe not.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 500 petabytes: data stored in Dropbox; 8.5 kB: amount of drum memory in an IBM 650; JavaScript: most popular programming
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The circle of life. Traffic flow through microservices at Netflix (Rob Young)If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 400Gbps: DDoS attack; 50,000: frames per second Mythbusters films in HD; 3,900: pages Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks; 1 terabit: satellites