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Hey, it's HighScalability time: From the stunning Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation * $7 trillion: US spend on patrolling oil sea-lanes; 82 billion: files served by MaxCDN in 5 months * Quotable Quotes: * @StephenFleming: "Money doesn’t solve scaling problems, but the actual solutions to scaling
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Run pneumatic tubes alongside optical fiber cables and we unite the digital and material worlds. * 1 billion: searches on DuckDuckGo in 2013 * Quotable Quotes: * pg: We [Hacker News] currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on
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Hey, it's HighScalability time, can you handle the truth? Should software architectures include parasites? They increase diversity and complexity in the food web. * 10 Million: classic hockey stick growth pattern for GitHub repositories * Quotable Quotes: * Seymour Cray: A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into IO-bound
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Hey, it's HighScalability time (with so much cool info this week it will blow your mind): Amazing microscope image of a carnivorous bladderwort * How many drones would it take to replace Santa? With a fleet of some 80 million or so F-16 drones the entire worldwide delivery could
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out. * 72: Intel's 72 core x86 Processor; One Trillion: number of fonts served by Google. * Quotable Quotes: * West-Eberhard: The gene does not lead, it follows. * @waldojaquith: To an
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out. * 26,496: number of cores in Amazon's supercomputer; 128 billion: WDC's huge web graph publicly available; 400 million: Snapchat more photos than Facebook per day;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out. * Quotable Quotes: * fidotron: It feels like we've gone in one big circle, where first we move the DB on to a separate machine for performance, yet now
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Robot elephant from 1950, which consisted of 9000 parts and could walk 27 mp/h * Galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable planets. According to economic theory this should put a downward pressure on rents. * Quotable Quotes: * Brandon Downey: F*ck these guys. * @IEEEorg: Every
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out. * $465m: Amount lost in 45 minutes due to a software bug. Where? Where else...the finance industry. * Quotable Quotes: * FCC: Fiber-to-the-home, on average, has the best performance in terms
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out. * $3.5 million: Per Episode Cost of Breaking Bad * Quotable Quotes: * @GammaCounter: "There are 400 billion trees in the Amazon River basin, close to the number of stars
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: In honor of Twitter's Cha-Ching moment, here's Twitter By the Numbers * Quotable Quotes: * @BrandonBloom: Mutable data structures are only faster b/c they have fewer features: ie no persistence. You must manually recover that feature w/ copying. * @hayesdrumwright: Scale breaks
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Consumption as a Service: Amazon has 80 1.2 million square foot warehouses.) * 100 megapixel cameras, taking 40 million pictures a second, creating of 1 petabyte of data every second: Large Hadron Collider in Higgs search * Quotable Quotes: * Tim Bell: You can't