Facebook Usage Hits 16 Billion Minutes a Day
Last Updated on Monday, 28 June 2010 11:20 Written by External Post Monday, 28 June 2010 11:20
1sockchuck writes ‘Facebook’s 400 million users spend more than 16 billion minutes on the site every day, and view 1 million photos every second. That’s prompted massive growth in the social network’s infrastructure, which now encompasses more than
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When the Power Goes Out At Google
Last Updated on Monday, 8 March 2010 05:00 Written by External Post Monday, 8 March 2010 05:00
1sockchuck writes ‘What happens when the power goes out in one of Google’s mighty data centers? The company has issued an incident report on a Feb. 24 outage for Google App Engine, which went offline when an entire data center lost power. The post-mortem
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Amazon EC2 May Be Experiencing Growing Pains
Last Updated on Friday, 15 January 2010 04:00 Written by External Post Friday, 15 January 2010 04:00
1sockchuck writes ‘Some developers using Amazon EC2 are wondering aloud whether the popularity of the cloud computing service is beginning to affect its performance. Amazon this week denied speculation that it was experiencing capacity problems after a
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