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Hey, it's HighScalability time:


In honor of Twitter's Cha-Ching moment, here's Twitter By the Numbers
  • Quotable Quotes:
    • @BrandonBloom: Mutable data structures are only faster b/c they have fewer features: ie no persistence. You must manually recover that feature w/ copying.
    • @hayesdrumwright: Scale breaks hardware Speed breaks software Scale and speed breaks everything Adrian Cockcroft - Netflix #TechSummit
    • Gladwell, Malcolm: Saul thinks of power in terms of physical might. He doesn’t appreciate that power can come in other forms as well— in breaking rules, in substituting speed and surprise for strength.
  • Now here's an irony. The East India Company established a major trading post at Bantam in Java. They called their trading posts "factories." Get it? Java. Factories. That's stranger than fiction.

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