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We at HighScalability are betting the over on the whole Mayan end of the world thingy: * 200M: monthly active Twitterers; 120: number of Netflix reencodings; 1.2 Million Years: Pr0n Watched Since 2006; 100M: Google Core-Hours Awarded to Science * Quotable Quotes: * @shipilev: I've settled on saying that if
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In a hole in the Internet there lived HighScalability: * $140 Billion: trivial cost of Google fiber everywhere; 5,200 GB: data for every person on Earth; 6 hours: time it takes for a 25-GPU cluster to crack all the passwords; * Quoteable Quotes: * hnriot: Good architecture eliminates the need for prayer.
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * Built to win: 4Gb/s, 10k requests per second, 2,000 nodes, 3 datacenters, 180TB and 8.5 billion requests. Design, deploy, dismantle in 583 days to elect the President. * @CarlosTheSailor: In modern terms, feudalism was a sort of scalability solution for the
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We're back and it's HighScalability Time: 1. 1B Tweets Every 2.5 Days: Twitter. 1 billion transactions/day: Salesforce. 2. Storing 700 terabytes of data into a single gram of DNA. Downside, reading is very slow. And any data might conflict with the messages aliens have
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It's HighScalability Time: * 1.5 Billion Pageviews: Etsy in September; 200 dedicated database servers: Tumblr * Quotable Quotes: * @rbranson : Datadog stays available where it counts (metrics injest) by using Cassandra, combined with an RDBMS for queries. Nice. * @jmhodges : Few engineers know what modern hw is capable of, in part,
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It's HighScalability Time: * @davilagrau: Youtube, GitHub,..., Are cloud services facing a entropic limit to scalability? * Async all the way down? The Tyranny of the Clock: The cost of logic and memory dominated Turing's thinking, but today, communication rather than logic should dominate our thinking. Clock-free design
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * @rodos: With so much manure in the room of #BigData the must be a pony in here somewhere! * @adron: #ricon2012 OH "it isn't cloud, nosql or whatever, it's distributed systems... That is the change!" Smartest thing stated
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It's HighScalability Time: * 30 Million: Lady Gaga Twitter followers; 1 Billion: active Facebook users; * Quotable Quotes: * @mappingbabel: Oracle exec says "we're not competing with Amazon for Netflix, we're competing with Amazon for Boeing," * @CompSciFact: "Most software looks more like a whirlpool
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * @dbasch: The world is full of "scalability engineers" who would die from an orgasm if their software ever saw 10,000 requests in a day. * @mtnygard: “Scaling issues are always expressed as a queue backing up somewhere.” —@moonpolysoft #strangeloop * @rbranson: If
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It's HighScalability Time: * @5h15h: Walmart took 40years to get their data warehouse at 400 terabytes. Facebook probably generates that every 4 days * Should your database failover automatically or wait for the guiding hands of a helpful human? Jeremy Zawodny in Handling Database Failover at Craigslist says Craigslist and
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It's HighScalability Time: * Serves 4 billion hours of video each month, has 425M gmail users, and has 100PB of active data: Google; 340,000+ cores across 300 data centers to >10k scientists, archiving 15PB / yr: Open Science Grid * Quotable Quotes: * Chris Travers: MySQL is what you get
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * Where did all the supercomputers go? Inside Intel. * @Jacattell: I love the smell of high scalability in the morning :-) * @nkohari: Post on HN about GitHub scalability. Top comment? “…someone wasted valuable time making the dashboard look so pretty” * Evolution of SoundCloud’s