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Facebook confirms 750 million users, sharing 4 billion items daily; Yahoo: 42,000 Hadoop nodes storing 180-200 petabytes; Formspring hits 25 million users.
Zynga's Cadir Lee: It’s not the amount of hardware that matters. It’s the architecture of the application. You have to work at making your app architecture so that it takes advantage of Amazon. You have to have complete fluidity with the storage tier, the web tier. We are running our own data centers. We are looking more at doing our own data centers with more of a private cloud.
Love the sensing making described by Hunch’s Infographic on their Taste Graph. 500 million people, 200 million items, 30 billion edges. 48 processors. 1 TB RAM.
Is MongoDB is the New MySQL? Stephen O'Grady thinks so using a worse is better argument: wide adoption by applications, enterprise inroads, simple feature set, and the number complainers. Who plays PostgreSQL in this movie?

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