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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Need a challenge? Solve the code on this 17.5 feet tall 11,000 year old wooden statue! * $100 million: amount Popcorn could have made from criminal business offers; 3.2-gigapixel: World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera; $17.3 trillion: US GDP in 2014;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: An astonishing 300 billion stars in our galaxy have planets. Take a look in the Eyes on Exoplanets app. * 1 billion: people who used Facebook in a single day; 2.8 million: sq. ft. in new Apple campus (with drone pics); 1.1 trillion:
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Who's Hiring? * Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online team is building the next generation of software development tools in the cloud out in Durham, North Carolina. Come help us build innovative workflows around Git and continuous deployment, help solve the Git scale problem or help us build a best-in-class
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The oldest known fossil of a flowering plant. 130 million years old. What digital will last so long? * 32.6: Ashley Madison password cracks per hour; 1 million: cores in the Human Brain Project's silicon brain; 54,000: tennis balls used at
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hunter-Seeker? Nope. This is the beauty of what a Google driverless car sees. Great TED talk. * $2.8 billion: projected Instagram ad revenue in 2017; 1 trillion: Azure event hub events per month; 10 million: Stack Overflow questions asked; 1 billion: max volts generated
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Who's Hiring? * VoltDB's in-memory SQL database combines streaming analytics with transaction processing in a single, horizontal scale-out platform. Customers use VoltDB to build applications that process streaming data the instant it arrives to make immediate, per-event, context-aware decisions. If you want to join our ground-breaking engineering
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Being Google CEO: Nice. Becoming Tony Stark: Priceless (Alphabet) * $7: WeChat's revenue per user and there are 549 million of them; 60%: Etsy users using mobile; 10: times per second a self-driving car makes a decision; 900: calories in a litre of
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A feather? Brass relief? River valley? Nope. It's frost on mars! * $10 billion: Microsoft data center spend per year; 1: hours from London to New York at mach 4.5; 1+: million Facebook requests per second; 25TB: raw data collected per day
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Where does IBM's Watson or Google Translate fit? (SciencePorn) * 40Tb/s: Bandwidth for Windows 10 launch; 4.04B: Facebook Q2 revenue; 37M: Americans who don't use the web; * Quotable Quotes: * @BoredElonMusk: We would have already discovered Earth 6.0 if
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Walt Disney doesn't mouse around. Here's how he makes a goofy business plan. * 81%: AWS YOY growth; 400: hours of video uploaded to YouTube EVERY MINUTE; 9,000: # of mineable asteroids near earth; 1,400: light years to Earth'
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In case you were wondering, the world is weird. Large Hadron Collider discovers new pentaquark particle. * 3x: Uber bigger than taxi market; 250x: traffic in HotSchedules' DDoS attack; 92%: Apple’s share of the smartphone profit pie; 7: Airbnb rejections * Quotable Quotes: * Netflix:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Spying on an ant holding its favorite microchip. (@SciencePorn) * 1,425%: malware attack ROI; 33333/sec: BP oil well datapoints generated; 8 million: mumified dogs; 5 billion: Apple map requests per week; 10 billion: parameter neural net in your basement; 1 trillion: records in