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Hey, it's HighScalability time (a particularly bountiful week):
- $19 billion: you know what it is; $46 billion: cost of Sochi Olympics; 400 gigabytes: data transmitted during the Sochi opening ceremony; 26.9 million: Stack Overflow community monthly visitors; 93 million: Candy Crush daily active users; 200-400 Gbps: The New Normal in DDoS Attacks
- Quotable Quotes:
- @brianacton: Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure.
- @BenedictEvans: Flickr: $35m. Youtube: $1.65bn Whatsapp: $19bn. Mobile is big. And global. And the next computing platform. Paying attention?
- @taziden: On the Internet, worst cases will become common cases #fosdem #postfix
- Brian Hayes: Any quantum program must have a stovepipe architecture: Information flows straight through.
- So you think Verizon is stealing your Netflix bandwidth? Not so fast says Dan Rayburn, Netflix’s Streaming Quality Is Based On Business Decisions by Netflix & ISPs, Not Net Neutrality: It's both, it is Netflix but it's also ISPs who don't want to spend the money to improve the end result to the customer.
- DIDO is back! Many moons ago I wrote How Will DIDO Wireless Networking Change Everything? DIDO, a low-latency high bandwidth wireless network technology that promises each wireless user to use the full data rate of shared spectrum simultaneously with all other users, by eliminating interference between users sharing the same spectrum. That was three years ago. Does it work yet? Yes, quite possibly: Perlman’s pCell: The super-fast future of wireless networking, or too good to be true? Exciting stuff.
- Great 100+ comment thread on reddit about coding for SSDs that covers a series of 6 SSD related articles: Coding for SSDs – Part 1: Introduction and Table of Contents. A raging debate about which are the real optimization strategies and which are just legend.
- If you want to know how those spooky ads follow you all over the place, popping up on every site you visit like a bad hallucination, then give Dare Obasanjo's article How Facebook Knows What You Looked at on Amazon a read. Facebook uses the Facebook Exchange along with the exchange of identity tokens in collusion with other ad networks and sites.
- This has implications beyond way beyond sports. Small Data in Sports: Little Differences that Mean Big Outcomes: Strata 2014: The gap between legendary and anonymity in sports is often less than a 1% performance difference in elite sports. Thus, finding the core, modifiable variables that determine performance and tweaking them ever so slightly can alchemize silver medals into gold ones.
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