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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Stunning Multi-Wavelength Image Of The Solar Atmosphere. * 4x: amount spent by Facebook users * Quotable Quotes: * Facebook: Facebook's average data set for CF has 100 billion ratings, more than a billion users, and millions of items. In comparison, the well-known Netflix Prize recommender
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Just imagine. 0-100 mph in 1.2 seconds. Astronaut's view from the Dragon spacecraft. * $850B: mobile web market in 2018; 107: unicorns; 3.2 billion: # of people on the Internet; 10^82: atoms in the observable universe * Quotable Quotes: * @cloud_opinion: appropriate
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Where is the World Brain? San Fernando marshes in Spain (by Cristobal Serrano) * 569TB: 500px total data transfer per month; 82% faster: elite athletes' brains; billions and millions: Facebook's graph store read and write load; 1.3 billion: daily Pinterest spam
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Stand a top a volcano and survey the universe. (By Shane Black & Judy Schmidt) * 1 million: Airbnb's room inventory; 2 billion: Telegram messages sent daily; Two billion: photos shared daily on Facebook; 10,000: sensors in every Airbus wing * Quotable Quotes:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Not spooky at all. A 1,000 robot self-organizing flash mob. * 400 ppm: global CO2 concentration; 13.1 billion: distance in light-years of farthest galaxy * Quotable Quotes: * Pied Piper: It’s built on a universal compression engine that stacks on any file, data, video
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Got containers? Gorgeous shot of the CSCL Globe (by Walter Scriptunas II), world's largest container ship: 1,313ft long; 19,000 standard containers. * $3000: Tesla's new 7kWh daily cycle battery. * Quotable Quotes: * @mamund: "Turns out there is nothing about
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A fine tribute on Silicon Valley & hilarious formula evaluating Peter Gregory's positive impact on humanity. * 118/196: nations becoming democracies since mid19th century; $70K: nice minimum wage; 70 million: monthly StackExchange visitors; 1 billion: drone planted trees; 1,000 Years: longest-exposure
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Beautiful, isn't it? It's the cerebral cortex of a rat that is organized like a mini-Internet. * $47 million: value of Cannabis per square km; $3.7 trillion: worldwide IT spending in 2014; $41B: spend on spectrum; 48,000 square km:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Luscious SpaceX photos have been launched under Creative Commons. * 1,000: age of superbug treatment; 18 million: number of laws in the US * Quotable Quotes: * @greenberg: Only in the Bay Area would you find a greeting card for closing a funding round. * @RichardWarburto: "
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: @scienceporn: That Hubble Telescope picture explained in depth. I have never had anything blow my mind so hard. * hundreds of billions: files in Dropbox; $2 billion: amount Facebook saved building their own servers, racks, cooling, storage, flat fabric, etc. * Quotable Quotes: * Buckminster Fuller: I
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What a view! The solar eclipse at sunrise from the International Space Station. * 60 billion: rows in DynamoDB; 18.5 billion: BuzzFeed impressions * Quotable Quotes: * @postwait: Hell is other people’s APIs. * @josephruscio: .@Netflix is now 34% of US Internet traffic at night. 2B+
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: 1957: 13 men delivering a computer. 2017: a person may wear 13 computing devices (via Vala Afshar) * 5.3 million/second: LinkedIn metrics collected; 1.7 billion: Tinder ratings per day * Quotable Quotes: * @jankoum: WhatsApp crossed 1B Android downloads. btw our android team is