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

Leapfrog Probing

A Resizable Concurrent Map

How to do Distributed Locking

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