• What says 4th of July like Nathan's ultimate scalable hot dog eating contest? This totally requires a scale-up strategy.
  • Facebook at 60,000 servers and counting.
  • Deepak Singh has collected some impressive massive data stats on extreme Hadoop usage: Facebook: 36 PB of uncompressed data, 2250 machines, 23,000 cores, 32 GB of RAM per machine, processing 80-90TB/day; Yahoo: 70 PB of data in HDFS, 170 PB spread across the globe, 34000 servers, Processing 3 PB per day, 120 TB flow through Hadoop every day; Twitter: 7 TB/day into HDFS; LinkedIn: 120 Billion relationships; 82 Hadoop jobs daily (IIRC); 16 TB of intermedia data.
  • Who knew DevOps could be so funny? Adam Jacob, CTO of Opscode, gave a hilarious talk at the Velocity conference on the true nature of DevOps. Warning: your neck may get sore from nodding in agreement so much and your belly may ache from laughing so much.