Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 24, 2011

Submitted for your scaling pleasure:

• Achievements:
  • Watson uses 10,000's of watts, the computer between the ears uses 20. With only 200 million pages and 2TB of data, Watson is BigInsights, not BigData.
  • That Google is pretty big: 1 billion unique monthly visitors
  • tweetimages: We peaked at 22m avatars yesterday. Bandwidth peaked at 9GB of @twitter avatars in a single hour.
  • Foursquare Surpasses 10 Million Users
  • Reddit Hits 1.2B Monthly Pageviews, More Than Doubles Its Engineering Staff
  • Twitter: 185 million tweets are posted daily; 1.6 billion search queries daily; indexing latency is less than 10 seconds.
• Quotable quotes:
  • skr: OH: "people wait their whole lives for a situation where they can use bloom filters"
  • joeweinman: @Werner at #structureconf : as of Nov 10, 2010, all Amazon.com traffic was served from AWS. <-- The child surpasses the parent.
  • bbatsov: A compiled language does not scalability make -- Yoda
  • swredman: If i read the marketing buzzwords 'scalability' or leverage your data' one more time, gonna lose my sh*t.
  • ipeirotis: Most tasks are too arbitrary to even decompose in atomic steps, while handling quality, cost, scalability and interactions.
  • ArmonDadgar: Some people. You had to use NoSQL for 2 TPS and a DB that can fit on my iPhone? This is some serious #BigData.
  • aphethean: For a guy who started Dev life programming applications on hierarchical databases #nosql looks remarkably familiar
  • "Software is an entropic system whose arrow of time flows in the direction of failure, aided and abetted by human bullsh*t"
  • bstg: Wonder if the best way to improve insights from #bigdata isn't better analytics, but a fundamental change in the way we capture it? #in
  For much more on what the Internet said this week, please read more below...