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Submitted for your end of July scaling pleasure:
- YouTube: 3 billion videos viewed a day; 48 hours of footage uploaded every minute. 64 core Tilera chip.
- Google wants to be your CDN. They figure the only way to make the web faster...is to host it. Page Speed Service - Web Performance, Delivered. An eventually for pay service that caches your website and distributes it around the world. No cost information. Your speed may vary. See the longish list of limitations.
- Nobody said anything interesting on scalability this week! A disaster of non-quotable proportions. If I missed something, now is your chance.
- Moving an Elephant: Large Scale Hadoop Data Migration at Facebook. Paul Yang describes the greatest westward expansion since the land bridge across the Bering Strait. It's a story of moving a 30PB Hadoop cluster from an over populated datacenter to the wide open spaces of a new continent. Unlike the early settlers, Facebook did not move the boxes over, that would disrupt service, they instead mirrored the data to their new datacenter.
For a lot more Stuff the Internet said on scalability, please keep on reading below...
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