Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 16th, 2016
Hey, it's HighScalability time:

- 2.5 billion+: smartphones on earth; $36,000: loss making a VR game; $1 million: spent playing Game of War; 2000 terabytes: saved downloading Font Awesome's fonts per day; 14TB: new hard drives; 19: Systems We Love talks; 4,600Mbps: new 802.11ad Wi-Fi standard;
- Quotable Quotes:
- Thomas Friedman: [John] Doerr immediately volunteered to start a fund that would support creation of applications for this device by third-party developers, but Jobs wasn’t interested at the time. He didn’t want outsiders messing with his elegant phone.
- Fastly: For every problem in computer networking there is a closed-box solution that offers the correct abstraction at the wrong cost.
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ben stopford: The Data Dichotomy. Data systems are about exposing data. Services are about hiding it.
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Ernie: just as Amazon invaded the CDN ecosystem with CloudFront and S3, CDNs are going to invade the cloud compute space of AWS.
- The Attention Merchants: When not chronicling death in its many forms, Continue reading