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JPL is firing up their Exoplanet Travel Bureau . Reserve your space now.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 200K : msgs send per second through iMessage; 750 million : xactions per week in App and iTunes store; 11 million : Apple Music subscribers; .7c
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Presented for your consideration: Drone Units of the U.S Armed Forces If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 16 terabytes: new Samsung SSD; 1%: earned income from an on-demand platform; $35: PI 3 has 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM and WiFi;
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Wonderful diagram of @adrianco Microservices talk at #OOP2016 by @remarker_eu If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 350,000: new Telegram users per day; 15 billion: messages delivered by Telegram per day; 50 billion suns: max size of a black hole;
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Maybe this year's Mavericks can ride some gravitational waves? If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 3.96 Million: viewers streaming the Super Bowl; 1000 kilometers: roads made of solar panels in France; 500mg: amount of chlorophyll absorbing photons in
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We have an early entry for the best vacation photo of the century. If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 1 billion: WhatsApp users; 3.5 billion: Facebook users in 2030; $3.5 billion: art sold online; $150 billion: China's
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is a trace of a Google search query. A single query might touch a couple thousand machines.If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 88: the too short life of Marvin Minsky; $18.4 billion: profit made by
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Imaginary Kingdom of Aurullia. A completely computer generated fractal. Stunning and unnerving.If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 42,000: drones from China securing the South China Sea; 1 billion: WhatsApp active users; 2⁻¹²²: odds of a
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Space walk from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Nope. A base jump from the CN Tower in Toronto.If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 13.5TB: open data from Yahoo for machine learning; 1+ exabytes: data stored in the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Finally, a clear diagram of Amazon's industry impact. (MARK A. GARLICK)If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 150: # of globular clusters in the Milky Way; 800 million: Facebook Messenger users; 180,000: high-res images of the
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Hey, Happy New Year, it's HighScalability time: River system? Vascular system? Nope. It's a map showing how all roads really lead to Rome.If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 71: mentions of innovation by the Chinese
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In honor of a certain event what could be better than a double-bladed lightsaber slicing through clouds? (ESA/Hubble & NASA)If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 66,000 yottayears: lifetime of an electron;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cheesy Star Trek graphics? Nope. It's hot gas streaming into Pandora’s Cluster.If you like Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 100 million: John Henry as played by a conventional computer loses to a