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Uber's microservice Graph. Thousands of microservices. Crazy like a fox? Or just crazy? (@msuriar)
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- 1.5 billion: monthly What's App users; 80 billion: docker downloads in 6 years; 1 billion: players on the App Store. 300,000 games; 13.5 billion: Voyager 1 miles from earth; 11 years: Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter; 500 million: Airbnb guests; 12.5 million bits: information learned by average adult; 7.7%: Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million: Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B: Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023;
- Quotable Quotes:
- John C. Lilly: When I say we may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less, I mean the substrate, the basic substratum under all else of our metaprograms is our programs. All we are as humans is what is built-in, what has been acquired, and what we make of both of these. So we are the result of the program substrate—the self-metaprogrammer.
- @andrewhurstdog: I caused a Gmail outage so big it made the national news, by forgetting to dereference a pointer...Right, this comes from blameless postmortems. Firing a person doesn't fix the problem, it removes a person that understands the problem.
- The more quotes the merrier...
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