Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 20, 2012

If you’ve got the time, we’ve got the HighScalability:

• Google+: 90 million users; Internet 2011: 2.1 billion Internet users, 1 trillion YouTube views, 5.9 billion mobile subscriptions; Fusion-io: One Billion IOPS; 12 atoms: size of IBM's new memory bit; 32 Million: Stack monthly visitors; Gmail: 350 Million Users; TimTebow: 1.5 million Tweets
• Quotable Quotes:
  • Similarity: There is no canonical schema anymore. Instead you should ask: What high-volume queries will I need to serve with my data? Then work backwards from there.
  • @kvirjee: Dis/Agree? -- "there is no problem but scalability, and architecture is its solution"
  • @robpegoraro : Eternal vigilance can be crowdsourced.
• Didn't Bill Gates say once that 48 bits would always be enough for an ID? Well, Oracle ran out of bits: Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed. 64 bits, that's the ticket, ipv6 went 128 bits. 
• The day Kodak died: We developed the world's first consumer digital camera but we could not get approval to launch or sell it because of fear of the effects on the film market... a huge opportunity missed.