Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 14th, 2015
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- $7: WeChat's revenue per user and there are 549 million of them; 60%: Etsy users using mobile; 10: times per second a self-driving car makes a decision; 900: calories in a litre of blood, vampires have very efficient metabolisms; 5 billion: the largest feature in the universe in light years
- Quotable Quotes:
- @sbeam: they finally had the Enigma machine. They opened the case. A card fell out. Turing picked it up. "Damn. They included a EULA." #oraclefanfic
- kordless: compute and storage continue to track with Moore's Law but bandwidth doesn't. I keep wondering if this isn't some sort of universal limitation on this reality that will force high decentralization.
- @SciencePorn: If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, all humans would fit into an apple.
- @adrianco: Commodity server with 1.4TB of RAM running a mix of 16GB regular DRAM and 128GB Memory1 modules.
- @JudithNursalim: "One of the most scalable structure in history was the Roman army. Its unit: eight guys; the number of guys that Continue reading