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It's HighScalability Time: * LHC compute jobs: use 1.5 CPU millennia every 3 days; Obama helps load test Reddit: 4.3 million page views * Quotable Quotes: * @secastro: Want to see nearly a terabyte of memory? * @DZone: Apache Projects are the Justice League of Scalability * Apple And Google Might
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It's HighScalability Time: * 500 TB/day: Facebook data * Quotable Quotes: * Tumblr mobocracy: This is what migrating a billion cache objects into a new cache pool looks like * #hoti it is possible to build all to all wdm networks where there is a wavelength per core. * A Generation Lost
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * @rbranson: So turns out the EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes are not total shit. This injects the man with a few weeks of runway. * @markzohar: It is amazing to witness the efficiency & scalability of algorithms. Given the choice, build your tech company on
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It's HighScalability Time: * TNW: On an average day, out of 30 trillion URLs on the web, Google crawls 20B web pages and now serves 100B searches every month. * Quotable Quotes: * @tapbot_paul: The 2 computers on the Curiosity rover are RAD750 based, they are approximately 1/10th the
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable Quotes: * Ross Tur: the tricks you learned to make things big are not the same tricks you can apply to make things infinite. * @gclaramunt: Son, I'm getting old, but let me tell you a secret: programming is hard, and high scalability and
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It's HighScalability Time: * Almost 1 Billion Users: Facebook; 30,000 connections across 94 locations: the Olympics Network; 2.5 quintillion: bytes of data created each day; 80K QPS: MemSQL. * In some early results Zencoder found EC2 was faster than GCE in their video transcoding tests, saying Google needs
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It's HighScalability Time: * 4 Trillion Objects: Windows Azure Storage * Quotable Quotes: * @benjchristensen: “What if we could make the data dense and cheap instead of sparse and expensive?” James Gosling @liquidrinc * @sinetpd360: People trying new things and sharing is what helps create scalability. Jim Rickabaugh #siis2012 * @rbranson: This h1.
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It's HighScalability Time (Good luck today): * A Friday the 13th Postmorterama: * James Hamilton with some high powered perspective on the report for the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. Apparently they haven't heard of the blameless post-mortem. Lots of interesting stuff, but this is a potentially disaster saving general
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It's HighScalability Time (with 33% more goodness for the same NoPrice): * 2.5 terabits per second : Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams; One Trillion Tons : Carbon Pollution; 1 Megawatt: more power due to leap second; 100,000 terabytes: information storage capability of one gram of human stool; 2.8B social
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Judging from the tweet flow, Velocity looked like a riotous good time. In this video on the main themes at Velocity, after a little microphone enhanced violence, John Allspaw and Steve Souders identify resilience and automation as two of the big ideas behind building a faster and stronger web. John
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quoteable Quotes: * @xinqiyang: Partition, replicate, index. Many efficiency and scalability problems are solved the same way. * @SnideLemon: Let's switch to a bottle of wine for economic scalability." -- the best justification for additional drinking ever * @cloudbees: "A whopping 57% of respondents
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It's HighScalability Time: * Yottabytes : What NSA knows about US; 214ms : ping between San Jose and Fez; $42M : MongoDB is funding scale!; 20K : lines of THX sound code * @adrianco: My takeaway from the MongoDB talk at #gluecon is that Mongo is implementing eventual scalability in the next version * The