• Facebook serves 3 billion Like buttons a day says VentureBeat.
  • CloudScaling reports: Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010? It looks like GAE for PaaS and an EC2 clone for IaaS.
  • Tweets of gold:
    • alandipert: scalability is a drug
    • seldo: Scalability lesson #23: if any part of your system involves a list that gets bigger over time, eventually that list will become too big.
    • obfuscurity: Her: "Go look at the pictures on the database." Me: "You mean our fileserver?" Her: "Whatever." 
    • luiscab: Ouch, I just read on an Info Mgmt rag that Hadoop could easily be an acronym for "Heck, Another Darn Obscure Open-source Project."
    • sanity: Depressed about how much time I've had to spend searching for the right database solution for a new project. Each has it's flaws
    • ioshints: You cannot take a car, grow it 10 times and expect to get a mining truck.