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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (The WINLAB at Rutgers, with software defined radios tied into GENI.) * 384 cores & 32TB of RAM: Oracle's SPARC M6 * Quotable Quotes: * @jennyinc: 2003: "I replaced you with a set of very small shell scripts." 2013: "I replaced your
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * $21 Billion: Google spend on datacenters * Quotable Quotes: * @lintool: Jeff Dean at XLDB: Largest Google Bigtable cluster: ~100s PB data; sustained: 30M ops/sec; 100+ GB/s I/O (gmail?) * @neil_conway: On a quick skim, the most surprising thing about the F1 paper
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Hey, it's HighScalability time (this week is a fall harvest basket overflowing with good nutritious wisdom): (Voyager: 36 yrs & 11B miles has reached interstellar space. So it begins...) * 170 million: metrics Twitter collects every minute; 350 million: Snapchat daily photo shares * Quotable Quotes: * @blowmage: OH: “Guys, databases
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Unidentified Ivy Bridge processor using 22 nanometer Tri-Gate transistors) * Quotable Quotes: * @pbailis: Big ups to AWS folks for following up re: all of my questions on cr1 provisioning. We saw a huge win moving from m1.xl to cr1.8xl * @rob_carlson: Packet switching
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Parkour is to terrain as programming is to frameworks) * 5x: AWS vs combined size of other cloud vendors; Every Second on The Internet: Why we need so many servers. * Quotable Quotes: * @chaliy: Today I learned that I do not understand how #azure scaling works,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 1 trillion: edges in Facebook's search graph * Quotable Quotes: * Miguel de Icaza: Callbacks as our Generations' Go To Statement * @kaleidic: "Haskell is a great language as a way of thinking, but I prefer programming in a language where I can
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 25%: Percentage of North American Internet Traffic served by Google * Quotable Quotes: * Aristotle: We must not expect more precision than the subject-matter admits. * Bret Victor: Technologies change quickly and minds change slowly. Ideas require people to unlearn what they’ve learned and adopt new
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Still not a transporter: Looping at 685 mph) * 898 exabytes: US storage, 1/3 global total; 1 Kb/s: data transmit rate from harvestable energy from human motion * Create your own trust nobody point-to-point private cloud. Dan Brown shows how step-by-step in How I
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (The Shard Scaling 6) * 3500+: number of species found underneath miles of ice; 360 TB/disc data capacity: 5D optical memory in glass; 50% Of Internet Traffic: Comes From Only 35 Sites/Services; 60 billion: potential alien planets that could give Snowden asylum * Quotable
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Dolls nerds can nest with) * Quotable Quotes: * @Carnage4Life: "Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement" - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/17.html … <= finally at the point where I get this * @etherealmind: You can dramatically
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Leandro Erlich's super cool scaling illusion) * Who am I? I have 50 petabytes of data stored in Hadoop and Teradata, 400 million items for sale, 250 million queries a day, 100,000 pages served per second, 112 million active users, $75 billions
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 1 trillion messages/day: Facebook's pub-sub; 4ms: Google Fiber last mile latency * Quotable Quotes: * @blueben: Just like general computing, Google observes that faster networks beget richer content rather than a faster user experience. #velocityconf * @unixdaemon: All of the big wins in performance