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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Steve Gibson on Security Now with a plausible analysis of the tech behind PRISM) * 27 billion: WhatsApp messages per day * Quotable Quotes: * Richard Feinman: If Bill Gates walks into a bar, on average, everybody in the bar is a millionaire. * @giltene: Financial Programmers get
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ever feel like everyone has already climbed your Everest?) * Trillion Particles, 120,000 cores, and 350 TBs: Lessons Learned From a Hero I/O Run on Hopper * Quotable Quotes: * @PenLlawen: @spolsky In my time as a scalability engineer, I’ve seen plenty of cases
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (resource consumption scales sub-linearly with population; economic output scales super-linearly) * 4PB: Ancestry.com's House of Us * Quotable Quotes: * @kellabyte: XBOX Live scaling up from 15,000 servers to 300,000 servers. That's some scale right there. * @giuseppegurgone: [...] that could work
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Scaling the Mighty Redwood photograph by Michael Nichols for NatGEO) * ~20K : Netflix AWS instances; 100 million hours per minute: Youtube video upload; * Quotable Quotes: * @sw17ch: Computer Science is thinking about thinking. Software Engineering is thinking about how to avoid thinking. * @neha: I am starting
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Earth sized solar flare, some more flair) * Google I/O to world: Just try to keep up with us. You can't. But go ahead and try. Nah na na na nah... * 17 billion: Google Cloud Messaging messages per day with 60ms latency;
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Who's Hiring? * Amazing things are happening at Dow Jones – help build the next generation News and Media platforms that serve the best journalism in the world. High-impact, passionate, and driven technologists thrive in our environment, building platforms that deliver trusted content that enlightens and inspires millions around the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (In Thailand, they figured out how to solve the age-old queuing problem!) * Nanoscale: Plants IM Using Nanoscale Sound Waves; 100 petabytes: CERN data storage * Quotable Quotes: * Geoff Arnold: Arguably all interesting advances in computer science and software engineering occur when a resource that was
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 100 Billion - Neurons in The Human Brain, As Many Cells as Stars in the Milky Way; 10TB - Tumblr memcache * Quoteable Quotes: * @thoward3: OH: "We make scalability a possibility.. You know, we make 'scalapossibilty'. " * Tesla: When wireless is perfectly
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings) * Two Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests / Second: S3; 1.4TB/s: Titan supercomputer has world’s fastest storage; four billion hours: Netflix streaming in last 3 months; $1.2B: Google's Q1 infrastructure spend * Quotable Quotes: * Google: We&
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Who's Hiring? * LogicMonitor is looking for a Front End developer to have a huge impact, be valued, realize their dreams, and help us realize ours. We are looking for someone to own the code that delivers the design and usability of LogicMonitor's enterprise SaaS application(s)
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings) * 877,000 TPS: Erlang and VoltDB. * Quotable Quotes: * Hendrik Volkmer: Complexity + Scale => Reduced Reliability + Increased Chance of catastrophic failures * @TheRealHirsty: This coffee could use some "scalability" * @billcurtis_: Angular.js with Magento + S3 json file caching = wicked scalability
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Dr. Who Scaling Up the Shard click for cool animated gif) * 50 sextillion: # of earth-like planets in universe; 100,000: stars * Quotable Quotes: * @petdance: "I wish I had enough money to run Oracle instead of Postgres." "Why do you want to