Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 6th, 2015
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- 9,000: Artifacts Uncovered in California Desert; 400 Million: LinkedIn members; 100: CEOs have more retirement assets than 41% of American families; $160B: worth of AWS; 12,000: potential age of oldest oral history; fungi: world's largest miners
- Quotable Quotes:
- @jaykreps: Someone tell @TheEconomist that people claiming you can build Facebook on top of a p2p blockchain are totally high.
- Larry Page: I think my job is to create a scale that we haven't quite seen from other companies. How we invest all that capital, and so on.
- Tiquor: I like how one of the oldest concepts in programming, the ifdef, has now become (if you read the press) a "revolutionary idea" created by Facebook and apparently the core of a company's business. I'm only being a little sarcastic.
- @DrQz: +1 Data comes from the Devil, only models come from God.
- @DakarMoto: Great talk by @adrianco today quote of the day "i'm getting bored with #microservices, and I’m getting very interested in #teraservices.”
- @adrianco: Early #teraservices enablers - Diablo Memory1 DIMMs, 2TB AWS X1 instances, in-memory databases and analytics...
- @PatrickMcFadin: Average DRAM Contract Price Continue reading