With a name like HighScalability... it has to be good:
Facebook: 1 Billion Users?; Internet Archive: 500,000 users/day, 6PB of data, 150 billion pages, 1000 queries a second; 6,180: The number of patents granted to IBM in 2011; 676: The number of patents granted to Apple in 2011; Live TV is Dead; Kickstarter: 10,000 successfully funded projects; $82bn: Apple's cash hoard; 100 Billion Planets: Our home sweet galaxy; Creative: 100-core system-on-a-chip; 15 million: Lines of code in the Linux kernel; According to Twitter: Justin Bieber > President Obama.
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It's HighScalability Time: 15 million 64 GB iPods every day: IBM on the Big Bang; Billions of msgs/day, 75Bn ops/day, 1.5M ops/sec peak. 250TB new data/mo and growing: Facebook HBase stats; 72 hours of video uploaded every minute: Y... Read Post
It's HighScalability Time: Serves 4 billion hours of video each month, has 425M gmail users, and has 100PB of active data: Google; 340,000+ cores across 300 data centers to >10k scientists, archiving 15PB / yr: Open Science Grid Quo... Read Post
It's HighScalability Time: Exascale Supercomputer: how IBM plans to understand data from a universe of light; 905 Billion Objects and 650,000 Requests/Second: S3; 64-cores: PostgreSQL shows linear read scalability; Quotable quotes: ... Read Post