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Submitted for your scaling pleasure:
- Twitterers tweet 200 million tweets a day. Popular topics are eclectic, ranging from Swine Flu to Rebecca Black. Twitter has a really cool video on the global flow of tweets in the world. Worth watching. It looks like a rainbow arcing across the northern hemisphere.
- Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects, more than doubling last years volume.
- Quotable quotes for independence Alex:
- n8foo: My fav part about the new #AWS pricing announcement - 500TB is the level where they say 'contact us'.
- stevedekorte: Are the folks advocating FP for scalability unaware of the Von Neumann bottleneck?
- lhazlewood: I don't think I've ever had a Love/Hate relationship like I've had with NoSQL. It's all awesome. And it all sucks.
- Free is good says Amazon, No Inbound Data Transfer Fees and slightly lower outbound fees. Will Amazon make up for this with voume? Maybe S3 sales (which are not cheaper)? it's true, most sites upload little data compared to their outbound traffic, but for some use cases it's a real win, email, scraper bots, chat, video, and backup.
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