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You've Got Questions We've Got HighScalability: * 1 trillion bits per second: IBM’s Holey Optochip; Scale of the Universe: 2; Infinite wireless: Vortex radio waves; 105,000 Servers: Akamai. * Quotable quotes: * @CodingFabian: IaaS = Ops without Hardware; PaaS = Devs without Ops; SaaS = Business without Devs * @audaciouslife: While
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Please don't squeeze the HighScalability: * Quotable quotes: * @karmafile: "Scalability" is a much more evil word than we make it out to be * @ostaquet: More hardware won't solve #SQL resp. time issues; proper indexing does. * @datachick: All computing technology is the rearrangement of data. Data
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This is not your father's HighScalability: * 13,000 times the world’s GDP: Cost of the Death Star * Quotable quotes: * @chrissalzman: Scalability is the enemy of right now. * @resatsch: I like our IT team: "We used Redis before Youporn did it" * @virtual_bill: Mixing flash and
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HighScalability Tested, Cyborg Approved: * Google's DNS: 70 billion requests a day; Superexponential: the rate of tech progress; Akka: 48 cores / 20 million messages a second; 1 minute: intervals for health; Santa Tracker: 1.6 Million Requests per Second; 70x: MySQL cluster performance improvement * Quotable Quotes * @joeweinman: Lightbody at
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HighScalability Tested, Mother Approved: * 12,233TPS: Twitter @ Super Bowl; 11 Million Slices: Dominos @ Super Bowl; 500K requests per second: S3; * The great mobile money drain. Mobile: high resource costs, low revenue. Mobile traffic on Plenty of Fish is growing at 3% a month, rising to 3 Billion pageviews a month,
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I'm only here for the HighScalability: * 762 billion: objects stored on S3; $1B/Quarter: Google spend on servers; 100 Petabytes: Storage for Facebook's photos and videos. * Quotable Quotes: * @knorth2: #IPO filing says #Facebook is "dependent on our ability to maintain and scale our technical infrastructure&
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If you’ve got the time, we’ve got the HighScalability: * 9nm : IBM's carbon nanotube transistor that outperforms silicon; YouTube: 4 Billion Views/Day; 864GB RAM: 37signals Memcache, $12K * Quotable Quotes: * Chad Dickerson: You can only get growth by feeding opportunities. * @launchany: It amazes me how many NoSQL
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If you’ve got the time, we’ve got the HighScalability: * Google+: 90 million users; Internet 2011: 2.1 billion Internet users, 1 trillion YouTube views, 5.9 billion mobile subscriptions; Fusion-io: One Billion IOPS; 12 atoms: size of IBM's new memory bit; 32 Million: Stack monthly visitors;
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With a name like HighScalability... it has to be good: * Facebook: 1 Billion Users?; Internet Archive: 500,000 users/day, 6PB of data, 150 billion pages, 1000 queries a second; 6,180: The number of patents granted to IBM in 2011; 676: The number of patents granted to Apple in
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OMG, it's 2012: * Harry Bombarda Twilight; 200 Million: Chinese online shoppers; Quantum 150 qubit computer: all the power of today's supercomputers; Sperm: two aspirins worth could repopulate the world; 1 Billion: the number of iOS and Android apps downloaded in a week; Watson: 250 Servers, 2,
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Who's Hiring? * Red 5 Studios. Wanted: DBAs and Programmers interested in MySQL scalability and replication. If interested, please see us here. * Callfire, one of the largest cloud telephony platforms on the web, is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer. You can learn more here. * Spokeo is hiring backend &
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A merry HighScalability to all and to all a good night: * Santa: 3.7 million appointments; iPad2 == 1986 Cray 2 6 processor super computer; Watson: 200 million pages of natural language content * Funny: a cautionary tale about storage and backup. Where is my data? I’m kinda big deal after