It's HighScalability Time:

• TNW: On an average day, out of 30 trillion URLs on the web, Google crawls 20B web pages and now serves 100B searches every month.
• Quotable Quotes:
  • @tapbot_paul: The 2 computers on the Curiosity rover are RAD750 based, they are approximately 1/10th the speed of an iPhone 4s and “only” cost $200k each.
  • @merv: #cassandra12 Why @adrianco loves what he's doing: "You are no longer IO-bound, you’re CPU bound, like you’re supposed to be."
  • @maxtaco: Garbage collection solves a minuscule %age of bugs, that are non-critical (memleaks? big deal!) and easy to find and fix. At a HUGE expense.
  • @merv: #cassandra12 @eddie_satterly describing $1M savings in first year migrating from MS SQL Server with SAN to Cassandra solution - w more data.
  • @mattbrauchler: A slow node is worse than a down node #cassandra12
  • @practicingEA: "The math of predictive analytics has been around for years, its the computers that have caught up"
  • @markimbriaco: When we say to decouple your code, we mean from other code and not from reality. Sorry that was confusing.
• To program like a Martian take a look at Monitoring the Execution of Space Craft Flight Software. Software that delivered the rover within a foot of it's target and is expected to keep working autonomously for years, pretty much isn't programmed like how anything is programmed today. Lots of people, lots of testing, lots of threads, lots of state machines, it's defined in terms of properties using formal methods, and most code is generated. How could they have got it so wrong?
• Take note funding seeking startupers and read Chris Dixon's Ten million users is the new one million users. If you are building a transaction oriented site, as in people pay money, then you will have to scale 10x less than if you are building a non-transactional site (ad supported).