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It's HighScalability Time:
- 21TB : Tumblr relational data
- Quotable Quotes:
- @ajbaird: Scalability is not a "feature" tacked on at the end development.
- @h_ingo: I like Doron's comparison: Build a MySQL scale-out cluster instead, then buy 2 Ferrari's with the money saved :-)
- You might figure Harry Potter would have some sort of scaling spell, but no, he has to rely on the muggle powered Azure. Pottermore uses Azure to handle 110 million page impressions a day.
- Ian Bogost in What Should We Do for a Living? brings up a sobering idea from the Facebook Illusion, the Internet economy will not save us, it sucks at scaling jobs and exists because it is subsidized by surpluses from the old economy it was supposed to replace. Where is that replicator when we need it?
- In Praise of Idleness. Bruce Dawson argues against busy waiting and for locks, in most cases. Couldn't agree more, that's a lot of CPU doing nothing and programmers quickly lose track of the overall flow of the program, though Adaptive spinning looks interesting. On Reddit.
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