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Hey, it's HighScalability time: (Ukrainian daredevil scaling buildings) * 44.6 billion - Tumblr posts; 300 Gb/s - DDoS DNS amplification attacks; 100 million - Eventbrite tickets processed. * Quotable Quotes: * @tveskov: Alan Kay: “The past 30 years have been completely mundane. It’s all been scaling (of old
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 1 Billion/Month : Active Mostly Mobile YouTube Users * Quotable Quotes: * @NeckbeardHacker: "Wait...he reimplemented swatch and rsync in chef, node and mongo?""Yup." "......Why?""Go easy on him...he's a Ninjipsterstar." * @b6n: Scale myth
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 0: # of Google Readers; 2.5 billion/day: new pieces of content added to Facebook; 2.7 billion/day: likes added to Facebook; 7PB/month: photos added to Facebook * Quotable Quotes: * @cwgem: It seems like cutting down API access is the stock scalability answer
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * Quotable Quotes: * @ibogost: Disabling features of SimCity due to ineffective central infrastructure is probably the most realistic simulation of the modern city. * antirez: The point is simply to show how SSDs can't be considered, currently, as a bit slower version of memory.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Unfortunately with Delicious still down access to all my lovingly curated links is out. But the show must go on... * Quotable Quotes: * @muratdemirbas: In the cloudcomputing webservices domain antifragility= elastic scalability + network effect * @SQLPerfTips: More hardware won't solve response time problems. Proper
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * Quotable Quotes: * @p337er: I have committed some truly horrendous crimes against scalability today. * @ErrataRob: doubling performance doesn't double scalability. * @rsingel: In 2008 when Yahoo.com linked out, I had a Wired story get 1M visitors in an hour from their homepage. * @philiph:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * The Herokulypse. A cautionary tale of what can happen when scalability is left for later. Rap Genius created quite a stir (reddit, Hacker News) when they documented high costs ($20K/month for 15 million monthly uniques) and poor performance (6 second average response times)
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 34TB : storage for GitHub search; 2,880,000,000: log lines per day * Quotable Quotes: * @peakscale: The "IKEA effect" << Contributes to NIH and why ppl still like IaaS over PaaS. :-\ * @sheeshee: module named kafka.. creates weird & random processes,
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 400 milliseconds : modern private wire for Natural Gas; 620,000: size of a mobile phone botnet; 1 million cores: jet noise modeling supercomputer; 2.2 petabytes per gram: DNA with storage density; 1 billion: Google's one quarter infrastructure spend * Quotable Quotes: * @StartupLJackson:
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Sorry, Stuff the Internet Says has been called on the account of a power outage. Gods of rain and tree have interfered with thee. Instead, how about watching a little Python? (that's Monty, not the language)
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 1 trillion nodes : The Near Future; 1 trillion connections : Facebook Now; 1 billion celestial objects observed : Gaia mission * Quotable Quotes: * Van Jacobson : IP started as an overlay on the phone system; today the phone system is an overlay on IP. * @MarkDurbin104 : Unit of Logic:
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: * 240,000,000,000 URLs : Wayback Machine; 743 billion : number of words Google analyzed to find etaoin srhldcu were the most used letters in the English language * Quotable Quotes: * @actuallyshayne : Building cloud scalability is a lot like playing a tower defense game. * @traviskaufman : lesson