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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. Wikipedia was a tremendous invention in the process of knowledge curation, and it was dependent, in turn, on the invention of wikis.

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

techblog.netflix.com

If a node fails, its replacement has a different IP address, but we want it to have the same token, and the original Cassandra replacement mechanisms had to be extended to handle this case cleanly. For example heres the client side response time plot from a single client generating about 20,000 requests/sec.

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