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

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Never inflict a distributed system on yourself unless you have too." vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. seconds with the system. Hey, it's HighScalability time: @danielbryantuk : "A LAMP stack is a good thing. mipsytipsy #CloudNativeLondon. There more.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

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Decentralized systems will continue to lose to centralized systems until there's a driver requiring decentralization to deliver a clearly superior consumer experience. For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud.

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What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

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The vulnerability, published as CVE-2021-44228 , enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet, if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Simply put, attackers can remotely take over any internet-connected device that uses certain versions of the Log4j library anywhere in the software stack.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 16th, 2018

High Scalability

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. yishengdd : However from my own experience, AWS Amplify is 10x better than Google Firebase. There is no value in being a full-stack operator of infrastructure for systems.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

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four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC! They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018

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72 : signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M : reddit posts per month; 10 trillion : per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200% : growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion : potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8 They'll love you even more.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

This makes it easy to reason about complex distributed system. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). Since switching between goroutines doesn't require an actual kernel context switch (or even a system call), this isn't too surprising. Dare Obasanjo : Amazon made $2.2B from search ads last quarter.

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