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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. $2 seconds with the system.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

High Scalability

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 With more data (yet smaller disk footprint), higher load and more functionality. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. decline the year before.".

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Fit and value: The business case for blockchain

O'Reilly

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

Paco Nathan : Frankly, I’d feel a lot more comfortable sending my kids off to school in a self-driving bus if the machine learning models hadn’t been trained solely by Google’s proprietary data. “Many companies will halt their blockchain tests this year. margin over the same period. million (US $3.6

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

200TB : GitLab Git data; $100 Billion : Instagram; ~250k : Walmart peak events per second; 10x : data from upgraded Large Hadron Collider; 3mm : smallest computer; 9.9 Blockchain is a solution in search of problems. For data centre these are twice as bad. They'll love you even more. Don't stop here.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., The Web provides decentralised publishing and direct access to unstructured data ( searching / querying that data has turned out to be a pretty centralised affair in practice though). Much of the paper concerns a monetisation scheme for decentralised data.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 15th, 2018

High Scalability

work at Google or Facebook; 18 : years of NASA satellite data; >1TB : Ethereum blockchain; 200,000 trillion : IBM's super computer calculations per second; Quotable Quotes: Michael Pollan : “I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley. Hungry for more?

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