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It's HighScalability Time:

  • 30 Million: Lady Gaga Twitter followers; 1 Billion: active Facebook users; 
  • Quotable Quotes:
    • @mappingbabel: Oracle exec says "we're not competing with Amazon for Netflix, we're competing with Amazon for Boeing,"
    • @CompSciFact: "Most software looks more like a whirlpool than a pipeline." #gotoaar
    • @ibogost: When someone says "Big Data," I always check to see if I still have my wallet.
    • @beezly: Google Compute Engine is "LIKE A HUGE SPACE LASER" #FACT #velocityconf
    • @rem: Bandwidth stops helping speed up web sites around 5mb (in a mobile context), yet reducing latency has a linear positive impact #VelocityConf
  • Funny take on a Hacker News front page

  • What We Found Scanning Millions of Email Systems: We found that, on average, it took 0.3 second to establish a connection, and 1.4 seconds to complete an SMTP transaction < So why do we need a new messasge bus again when email works just fine?

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