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In a hole in the Internet there lived HighScalability:

  • $140 Billion: trivial cost of Google fiber everywhere; 5,200 GB: data for every person on Earth; 6 hours: time it takes for a 25-GPU cluster to crack all the passwords; 
  • Quoteable Quotes:
    • hnriot: Good architecture eliminates the need for prayer.
    • @adrianco: we break AWS, they fix it. Stuff that's breaking now is mostly stuff other clouds haven't got to yet.
    • Scalability Rules: Design for 20x capacity. • Implement for 3x capacity. • Deploy for ~1.5x capacity.
  • Fast typing Aaron Delp with his AWS re:Invent Werner Vogel Keynote Live Blog.  Some key points: Decompose into small loosely coupled, stateless building blocks; Automate your application and processes; Let Business levers control the system; Architect with cost in mind; Protecting your customer is the first priority; In production, deploy to at least two availability zones; Integrate security into your application from the ground up; Build, test, integrate and deploy continuously; Don't think in single failures; Assume Nothing.

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