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  • Jeremy Zawodny, while performing data alchemy in the dungeons of Craigslist, stored 1,250,000,000 Key/Value Pairs in Redis on a 32GB Machine.
  • Data sorting world record: 1 terabyte, 1 minute. The system has 52 computer nodes, each node is a commodity server with two quad-core processors, 24 gigabytes (GB) memory and sixteen 500 GB disks. It's not just hardware though, they also built a software that utilized all their CPU and RAM.
  • Tweets of Gold:
    • wm: I am really getting the sense that none of you yokels waxing profound about scalability actually has anything factual to say
    • joestump: I think you can do things to *mitigate* pain points up front. You don't need to over-engineer, but it's not hard to look forward.
    • danielcrenna: I love it when I check in debug code accidentally and it turns into a three day hunt for a major scalability problem
    • joestump: Your post also makes me think of another phrase I say often: Scaling == Specialization. Bigger scale = More specialization.


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