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It's HighScalability Time: * 15 million 64 GB iPods every day: IBM on the Big Bang; Billions of msgs/day, 75Bn ops/day, 1.5M ops/sec peak. 250TB new data/mo and growing: Facebook HBase stats; 72 hours of video uploaded every minute: YouTube * Quotable Quotes: * @ammeep: Great
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It's HighScalability Time: * 42 Billion: Netflix API Requests/Month * Quotable quotes: * @commonlisp: Ideas from the talk: In Haskell laziness + thunks + garbage collection (GC) impede multicore scalability. Parallel GC is crucial. * @Bulldozer0: Global state is the enemy of scalability; not only in software, but in governance. * If you'
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It's HighScalability Time: * 2.5M : Erlang Concurrent Connections; 20 Billion : Urban Airship Push Notifications. * @agentdero: "You go to production with the code you have, not the code you wish you had" - Devops Rumsfeld * @PatrickMcFadin: After talking to a lot of big #aws customers tonight, the
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Who's Hiring? * Are you looking for good people? Fun and Informative Events * The DevOps PaaS Infusion Meetup NYC - Taking Mission-Critical Apps to the Cloud. You’ll hear real world use cases from Microsoft, Aditi, Cisco, GigaSpaces, and C24. Register here: http://bit.ly/IpgpaN. * O'Reilly
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable quotes: * Richard Feynman: Suppose that little things behave very differently than anything big * @orgnet: "Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think" -- John Allen Paulos, Mathematician * @bcarlso: just throw out the word "scalability". That'll bring em
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It's HighScalability Time: * Quotable quotes: * The unbearable cost of the cloud? @marcoarment: My experiment with Amazon CloudSearch was going very well until I imported half of subscribers' bookmarks and saw it would cost $10k/month. * @JBossMike: Serious question: Do the Node.js hipsters enjoy not knowing WTF
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It's HighScalability Time: * 100 Billion PVs/Week: Plenty of Fish; 695k TPS: Node.js & VoltDB; 131ms: Response from EC2 EU * Quotable quotes: * Markus Frind: Scaling is not very fun these days. * Mike Krieger: Scaling is like replacing all components on a car while driving it at 100
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It's HighScalability Time: * 50 million in 50 days : Draw Something downloads; 40 million concurrent users : Skype * Key to making sensors ubiquitous is getting the BOM cost down. Here's a dream way of making that happen: Bye-Bye Batteries: Radio Waves as a Low-Power Source. “Silicon technology has
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It's HighScalability Time: * Exascale Supercomputer: how IBM plans to understand data from a universe of light; 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second: S3; 64-cores: PostgreSQL shows linear read scalability; * Quotable quotes: * pkaler: Programming is hard. Scaling is harder. * @crucially: As far as I can tell, openstack
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Choosy Mothers Choose HighScalability: * Quotable quotes: * @itarradellas: "Revolutions in science have often been preceded by revolutions in measurement" * @jasongorman: Use dependency injection, not Spring. Use event-driven, asynchronous I/O, not Node.js. Use MVC, not http://ASP.NET MVC etc etc * @bernardgolden: #netflix uses most aggressive #aws reservation
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Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, Oh, What a HighScalability it is: * $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms; 9 days: It took AOL 9 years to hit 1 million users. Facebook 9 months. Draw Something 9 days; ~362 sq ft solar array: powers 1 sq ft of
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HighScalability is What We Do: * 454,400: Number of Amazon servers; 45PB: Facebook Data Warehouse, grows exponentially; 5 Atoms: Ultimate limit of thermodynamics; YouTube: 4 billion views/day, 60 hours of video uploaded every minute, revenue doubled in 2010 * Quotable quotes: * @adrianco: Walmart labs run large single region Cassandra clusters