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Scale the modern way / No brush / No lather / No rub-in / Big tube 35 cents - Drug stores / HighScalability:
- 8868 Tweets per second during VMAs; Facebook: 250 million photos uploaded each day; Earth: 7 Billion People Strong
- Potent quotables:
- @kevinweil : Wow, 8868 Tweets per second last night during the #VMAs. And that's just the writes -- imagine how many reads we were doing!
- @tristanbergh : #NoSQL isn't cool, it's a working kludge of existing architectures, bowing to the current tech limits, not transcending them
- After a particularly difficult Jeopardy match, Watson asked IBM to make him a new cognitive chip so he could continue to kick human butt. The result, a newish chip design collocates data and computation. RAM and CPU are interconnected together. IBM explains. "One core contains 262,144 programmable synapses and the other contains 65,536 learning synapses." The win: lower power usage and better pattern recognition. On HackerNews. Watson is now said to happy, petting a virtual kitten that never leaves his virtual lap.
- What do we have here? Spotify, surreptitiously, is P2P? Crack investigation by Frank Catalano in Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free”, says it's so. [I was] less pleasantly surprised to see that when Spotify wasn’t playing audio, it was using my network connection. A lot.
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