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We at HighScalability are betting the over on the whole Mayan end of the world thingy:
- 200M: monthly active Twitterers; 120: number of Netflix reencodings; 1.2 Million Years: Pr0n Watched Since 2006; 100M: Google Core-Hours Awarded to Science
- Quotable Quotes:
- @shipilev: I've settled on saying that if performance is the scalar field in state space, then scalability is just it's gradient.
- @AndiMann: "Only 1% of #Amazon users should care about #cloud scalability, elasticity". Brilliant!
- @Guerrero_FJ: Always remember: 'scalability problems should be solved when there are scalability problems.' #leanstartup
- Santa's Architecture: It's a little known fact that Santa Clause was an early queue innovator. Faced with the problem of delivering a planet full of presents in one night, Santa, in his hacker's workshop, created a Present Distribution System using thousands of region based priority present queues for continuous delivery by the Rudolphs. Rudolphs? You didn't think there was only one Rudolph did you? Presents are delivered in parallel by a cluster of sleighs, each with redundant reindeer in a master-master configuration. Each Rudolph is a cluster leader and they coordinate work using an early and more magical version of the ZooKeeper protocol.
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