article thumbnail

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

High Scalability

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.

Internet 123
article thumbnail

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

High Scalability

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. JavaScript benchmark.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific.

AWS 146
article thumbnail

Upcoming Webinar Tuesday, 7/31: Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures

Percona

Such architectures bring many benefits (such as scalability and resiliency), but can also bring a lot of pain if incorrectly designed and executed. With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups.

article thumbnail

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 08 June 2013 06:00 PM. While I was in New Zealand I had great discussion with the folks from Trade Me , the auction site which according to some counts for 70% of all NZ internet traffic. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 82
article thumbnail

Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

All Things Distributed

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

Games 130
article thumbnail

Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

This can provide near native functionality and user experience while being able to function without an active internet connection. Faster and scalable performance as compared to React or Vue. Introduced in 2006, its popularity peaked around 2013-14 and has been on the decline ever since.