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Hey, it's HighScalability time: New World Record BASE jumping from World's Tallest Building. #crazy * 30 billion: total Pinterest pins; 500,000,000: What'sApp users (700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day); 1 billion: Facebook active users on phones and tablets. * Quotable
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Scaling to the top of "Bun Mountain" in Hong Kong * 44 trillion gigabytes: size of the digital universe by 2020; 6 Times: we have six times more "stuff" than the generation before us. * Quotable Quotes: * Facebook: Our warehouse stores upwards
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches which have as much compute power as a Commodore 64 * 40,000: # of people it takes to colonize a star system; 600,000: servers vulnerable to heartbleed * Quotable Quotes: * @laurencetratt: High frequency traders paid $300M to reduce
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Looks like a multiverse, if you can keep it. * Quotable Quotes: * @abt_programming: "I am a Unix Creationist. I believe the world was created on January 1, 1970 and as prophesized, will end on January 19, 2038" - @teropa * @demisbellot: Cloud prices
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Isaac Newton's College Notebook, such a slacker. * Quotable Quotes: * Chris Anderson: Petabytes allow us to say: ‘Correlation is enough.’ * @adron: Back to writing the micro-services for my composite app with regionally distributed, highly available, key value crypto stores of unicorns! * DevOps Cafe:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: LifeExplorer Cells in 3D * Quotable Quotes: * The Master Switch: History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Twitter valiantly survived an Oscar DDoS attack by non-state actors. * Several Billion: Apple iMessages per Day along with 40 billion notifications and 15 to 20 million FaceTime calls. Take that WhatsApp. Their architecture? Hey, this is Apple, only the Shadow knows. * 200 bit quantum
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (full) * Quotable Quotes: * @ML_Hipster: A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion. * OH: Network effects don't happen
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Hey, it's HighScalability time (a particularly bountiful week): The Telephone Wires of Manhattan in 1887 (full) * $19 billion: you know what it is; $46 billion: cost of Sochi Olympics; 400 gigabytes: data transmitted during the Sochi opening ceremony; 26.9 million: Stack Overflow community monthly visitors; 93 million:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Climbing the World's Second Tallest Building * 5 billion: Number of phone records NSA collects per day; Facebook: 1.23 billion users, 201.6 billion friend connections, 400 billion shared photos, and 7.8 trillion messages sent since the start of 2012. * Quotable
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Google "Corkboard" Server, 1999 * 5 billion requests per day: Heroku serves 60,000 requests per second; 500 Petabytes: Backblaze's New Data Center; 25000 simultaneous connections: on a Percona Server * How algorithms help determine that shape of our world. First we
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Gorgeous image from Scientific American's Your Brain by the Numbers * Quotable Quotes: * @jezhumble: Google does everything off trunk despite 10k devs across 40 offices. * @KentLangley: "in 2016. When it goes online, the SKA is expected to produce 700 terabytes of data