Hey, it's HighScalability time:

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (full)

• Quotable Quotes:
  • @ML_Hipster: A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion.
  • OH: Network effects don't happen on toll roads.
  • Benedict Evans: Google is a vast machine learning engine... and it spent 10-15 years building that learning engine and feeding it data.
• Mining Experiment: Running 600 Servers for a Year Yields 0.4 Bitcoin. Yes, this is a far superior way of doing things. Chew up the commons for marginal gain. It's like old times.
• Game designers, forget the sardines and go hunt some whale. Swrve found: half of free-to-play games’ in-app purchases came from 0.15 percent of players. Only 1.5 percent of players of games in the Swrve network spent any money at all.
• Google has a beta version of their cloud pricing calculator. The interface is a little funky with separate "Add to Estimate" sections, but the prices look good. 5 servers, with 2 cores, 7.5GB RAM, 24x7, 3TB storage, 100 million IOPS, 1TB snapshot storage, 1TB light Cloud SQL operations, 4TB cloud storage, all for $1,559.24 a month.
• So scalability doesn't matter? After the WhatsApp acquisition here's a tweet from Telegram Messenger: 4 million users joined Telegram within the last 18 hours. We're doing our best, but the service is getting unstable due to high load..it'll take some time to transport and install the new equipment.
• Maybe content can make money rather than being cheap commodity chum for aggregators. Financial Times’ CTO John O’Donovan: We make more money from our content than from advertising which is a really interesting shift – we are pushing boundaries in terms of how we are getting our content into these different services and platforms.

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