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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

High Scalability

There was already a transportation network called the US Postal Service, and Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post, all over the world, that could deliver our packages. They'll learn a lot and love you even more. They'll learn a lot and love you even more. There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. Buildings, food and transport have a much bigger carbon footprint than IT globally. Load peaks can be caused by inefficient initialization code at startup, cron jobs, traffic spikes, or retry storms.

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