It takes a licking and keeps on HighScalabilitying:

• Instagram: 60 photos per second; Twitter: 8,868 Tweets per second MTV Awards; Foursquare: 15 million users; Facebook: 60 million qps; Netflix: stream 1 billion hours in Q4; Evolution: 16,000 eyes; Evernote: 750K Paid Users; AOL: 60,000 Servers;  Netflix API: 20,000 requests per second; Tumblr: 900 posts per second.
• Quotable quotes:
  • @LusciousPear : This is my key-value store. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.
  • @pavlobaron : @old_sound if this site isn't on highscalability.com , I won't open it
  • @nzmrmn : Words I hate: moist, "sinfully decadent," facilitator, dopesauce, deliverables, accountability, coolio, "ping me," scalability.
  • @anggriawan : Mark Callaghan (Facebook Engineer): "You can tune #MySQL to perform very fast per node if you know what you’re doing."
  • Jesper Nordenberg : Java is good at hiding the real complexities of programming and introducing incidental ones.
  •  @markimbriaco : It's true, I'm a hardware nerd. I love servers, not gonna lie.  
    • I see a lot of people comming out of the server closet these days (Kyle Brandt). Be proud!
• Possibly NSFW Cartoon: The Hard Life of a NoSQL Coder
• Making the Netflix API More Resilient. The video must flow. Ben Schmaus explains how Netflix keeps the landsraad supplied even through collapse and revolution: graceful fallback driven by real-time stats and visibility through a dashboard.
• IBM’s 3 big chip breakthroughs explained: Racetrack memory - electrons round a wire like a car goes around a racetrack; Graphene - carbon-based chips; Carbon nanotubes - first transistor with channel lengths that are smaller than 10 nanometers.
• One reason instances are rebooted in the cloud: security updates. It can't always be a sexy cascading failure.