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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. What once cost $20,000 and was produced by skilled researchers in a lab, now costs $500 and is produced by hobbyists working part-time. Once the hardware is capable enough, the invention is enabled.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

The entire test was able to complete within two hours with a total cost of a few hundred dollars, and these EC2 instances were only in existence for the duration of the test. There was no setup time, no discussions with IT operations about datacenter space and no more cost once the test was over.

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