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You may not scale often, but when you scale, please drink HighScalability:
- Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews; IBM builds 120 petabyte cluster out of 200,000 hard drives; Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours;
- Potent quotables:
- @scankp : Turn up the bitrate to the data furnace honey. We’re expecting a frost tonight. We can use the extra cash, too
- @gazzar_rj : The need for scale-out, automated, one storage pool +PB, linear performance scalability, the same admins" Sujal Patel
- @tweetimages : We served 551,296,643 @twitter avatars for the month of July. Not bad!
- You thought a memcache service would be a great product idea for Amazon? So did Amazon. They've released ElastiCache - a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. Aren't you glad you waited on the idea? Sebastian Kreutzberger warns Amazon is making the same mistakes by hosting the service in only one Availability Zone. Also take a look at Sebastian's very well done Scalability for Dummies series.
For many more things the internet has to say on scalability, please read on...
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