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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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And Airbnb, Uber and WeWork, respectively, have firmly established themselves in the list of top ten ‘unicorns’ — companies valued at more than $1 billion. That’s why many distributed computing projects involve volunteers who are willing to work for free in order to contribute to a worthwhile cause and to be part of a prestigious project.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Each time we need to add capacity to our application, we go back to step 1. The actual directory itself is straightforward.