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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In your best Carl Sagan voice...Billions and Billions of Habitable Planets. * Quotable Quotes: * @Kurt_Vonnegut: Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. * @neil_conway: "The paucity of innovation in calculating join
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Exterminate! 1,024 small, mobile, three-legged machines that can move and communicate using infrared laser beams. * 1.6 billion: facts in Google's Knowledge Vault built by bots; 100: lightening strikes every second * Quotable Quotes: * @stevendborrelli: There's a common feeling here
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Somehow this seems quite appropriate. (via John Bredehoft) * 75 acres: Pizza eaten in US daily; 270TB: Backblaze storage pod; 14nm: Intel extends Moore's Law * Quotable Quotes * discreteevent: The dream of reuse has made a mess of many systems. * David Crawley: Don'
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Physicists reveal the scaling behaviour of exotic giant molecules. * 5 billion: Transistors Intel manufactures each second; 396M: WeChat active users * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: Every hour or so, Apple ships phones with something around 2x more transistors than were in all the PCs on earth
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: From Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud. * Quotable Quotes: * @shanselman: Wife: "How was your day?" Me: "I'm using Grunt to automate NuGet creation for AngularJS." Wife: "But will that scale?" Me: "Well played." * John
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's systems all the way down. Bugs That Call Us Home. * 1 million users in just 4 days: Yo; 30 billion: Pinterest Pins. * Quotable Quotes: * @GlennF: Amazon still dreams it is a startup, like a dog dreaming of chasing rabbits, twitching its
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The one is many. Lichen composed of possibly 400 distinct species. * Quotable Quotes: * The Master Switch: Selling radio sets—the old revenue model—was a good if limited business, for ultimately few households would need more than one radio every few years. But advertising
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Yesterday in history: Nikola Tesla's Birthday, born in 1856. The greatest geek who ever lived? * 10Gbps: New world record broadband speed of 10 Gbps over copper. * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: There were 40m internet users when Netscape IPOed. The time's not
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Beauty is everywhere. Household dust magnified 22 million times. * Let's play a game of guess the company. They have: >100 billion searches per month; > 60 trillion known URLs; > 50 billion facts in knowledge graph; > 100 hours of video
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cross Section of an Undersea Cable. It's industrial art. The parts. The story. * 400,000,000,000: Wayback Machine pages indexed; 100 billion: Google searches per month; 10 million: Snapchat monthly user growth. * Quotable Quotes: * @duncanjw: The Great Rewrite - many apps
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: NASA captures Guatemala volcano erupting from space * 40,000 exabytes: from now until 2020, the digital universe will about double every two years; $650,000: amount raised by the MaydayPAC in one week. * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: Masayoshi Son: $20m initial investment in Alibaba, current
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Google's new POWER8 server motherboard * 1 trillion: number of scents your nose can smell; millions of square feet: sprawling new server farms * Quotable Quotes: * Gideon Lewis-Kraus: As the engineer and writer Alex Payne put it, these startups represent “the field offices of