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It's HighScalability Time:
- Quotable Quotes:
- @justinesherry: First lesson watching @eric_brewer's keynote at #ricon2012 -- distributed systems make you go bald. (Both audience and speaker!)
- @rodos: With so much manure in the room of #BigData the must be a pony in here somewhere!
- @adron: #ricon2012 OH "it isn't cloud, nosql or whatever, it's distributed systems... That is the change!" Smartest thing stated at a conf in ages.
- @adron: OH "What's the hello world of distributed systems?" "Twitter."
- Mikael Ronstrom: A long career on distributed systems has learnt me that it is extremely important to do proper partitioning of data sets to achieve scalability on network level. But it is still extremely important to make each node in the distributed system as large as possible.
- Dan Rayburn: CDNs Account For 40% Of The Overall Traffic Volume Flowing Into ISP Networks
- One minute and 19 seconds into launch the Falcon 9 lost one of its nine engines. Software apapted by detecting engine failure, cutting the fuel supply, and then distributing the unused propellant to the remaining engines, allowing them to burn longer. How cool is that! That's High Availability in practice. That smooth SpaceX launch? Turns out one of the engines came apart.
- When is kilo 1000 and when is it 1024? Thank the bit lords the values are so close because there's a kiloton of confusion on this point, as is shown by the conversation around Whats the Difference Between Kbps and kBps ?
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