March 2016 Rewind
News from around the Web
Scaling to exabytes and beyond: 500 petabytes of data stored in Dropbox
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: TOURING THE AWESOME RANDOM ACCESS OF OLD
Javascript is the most popular programming language in the world
400Gbps: Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks
Using Apache Spark to predict attack vectors among billions of users and trillions of events
Tutorials
Twitter Quotes
Population size:
1. Facebook
2. China ??
3. India ??
4. Whatsapp
5. WeChat
6. Instagram
7. USA ??
8. Twitter
9. Indonesia ??
10. Snapchat— Chris Maddern (@chrismaddern) March 13, 2016
"How do you serve 10M unique users per month" CDN, caching, minimize dynamics, horizontal scaling…also what's really hard is peak users.
— Jim Gray (@grayj_) March 17, 2016
"Improve BigQuery ingestion times 10x by using Avro source format" https://t.co/d2WRggnEAB HT @squarecog
— Doug Cutting (@cutting) March 17, 2016
O.5TB generated during each flight by jet engines sensors, used for optimising fuel consumption and accelerating repair #Iot #qconlondon
— Emmanuel Marchal (@manumarchal) March 8, 2016
Chris Ueland
http://www.ueland.comWanting to call out all the good stuff when it comes to scaling, Chris Ueland created this blog, ScaleScale.