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Submitted for your scaling pleasure:
- Twitter indexes an average of 2,200 TPS (peek is 4x that) while serving 18,000 QPS (1.6B queries per day). eBay serves 2 billion page views every day requiring more than 75 billion database requests.
- Quotable Quotes:
- Infrastructure is adaptation --Kenneth Wright, referencing reservoir building by the Anasazi
- MattTGrant: You say: "Infinite scalability" - I say: "fractal infrastructure"
- Like the rich, More is different, says Zillionics. Large quantities of something can transform the nature of those somethings. Zillionics is a new realm, and our new home. The scale of so many moving parts require new tools, new mathematics, new mind shifts. Amen.
- Data mine yourself says the Quantified Self. All that jazz about monitoring and measuring services to continually improve them-- that works for you too! You may not be a number, but self-numbers are a path towards being all you can be. Motivated by this same spirit, some time ago I published an empirical process control method for weight control centered on creating and using a feed back system. More at: The 10 Designer Principles for Controlling Your Weight and the The Designer Way.
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