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Wake up! It's HighScalability time—once again: The Apollo 11 guidance computer repeatedly crashed on descent. On earth computer scientists had just 13 hours to debug the problem. They did. It was CPU overload because of a wrong setting. Some things never change! Do you like this sort
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time—once again: XKCD Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn't these
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Deep-sky mosaic, created from nearly 7,500 individual exposures, provides a wide portrait of the distant universe, containing 265,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the big bang. (hubblesite) Do you
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Event horizon? Nope. It's a close up of a security hologram. Makes one think. Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Found! The One Ring. In space! Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn&
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Spirit? Smoke? Lightning? Nope. It's a gorgeous LIDAR image showing 1500 years of Willamette River movement (@Blacky_Himself) Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I&
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Out sick today, but start saving up for that ticket to Mars (more):
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: SHUTDOWN ABORT the last Oracle database running Amazon Fulfillment! pic.twitter.com/DorqTua2LtMarch 29, 2019 How unhappy do you have to be as a customer to take so much joy in end-of-lifing a product? Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Uber's microservice Graph. Thousands of microservices. Crazy like a fox? Or just crazy? (@msuriar) Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Van Gogh? Nope. A satellite image of phytoplankton populations or algae blooms in the Baltic Sea. (NASA) Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: The web is 30! Some say it's not the web we wanted. But if we got that web, would it have ever grown so big? Worse usually is better. Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: A highly simplified diagram of serverless. (@jbesw) Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. It has