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Scale
Bookmarks
What Does It Take to Make Google Work at Scale?
A slide deck on what it takes to make Google's infrastructure work at scale — covering the distributed systems challenges, data storage, and engineering decisions behind running at internet scale. A useful systems design reference from before Designing Data-Intensive Applications became the canonical text.
Twitter Powers of Ten
Rob Weir's 2011 post using powers-of-ten framing to characterize Twitter's data and scale properties — from individual tweets to the full firehose. A snapshot of the social media scale conversation before big data tooling became mainstream.
HERE IS TODAY
Here Is Today is an interactive scale visualization that places today's date against geological and cosmic timescales — a minimalist but viscerally effective demonstration of how visualization can make abstract quantities comprehensible through progressive context.