Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 7th, 2016
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- 70 billion: facts in Google's knowledge graph; 80 million: monthly visitors to walmart.com; 50%: lower cost for sending a container from Shanghai to Europe; 6 billion: Docker Hub pulls per 6 weeks; 5x: impact reduction using new airbag helmet; 400: node Cassandra + Spark Cluster in Azure; 66%: loss of installs when apps > 100MB; 223GB: Udacity open sources self-driving car data;
- Quotable Quotes:
- rfrey: The success of many companies, and probably all of the unicorns, has nothing to do with technology. The tech is necessary, of course, but so are desks and an accounting department. Internalizing that has been difficult for me as an engineer.
- @mza: 72 new features/services released last month on #AWS. 706 so far this year (up 42.9% YoY).
- Marc Andreessen: To me the problem is clear: The problem is insufficient technological adoption, innovation, and disruption in these high-escalating price sectors of the economy. My thesis is that we're not in a tech bubble — Continue reading