Answer (1 of 11): Well, it was among the company's best-kept secrets. Google's Borg system is a cluster manager that runs hundreds of thousands of jobs, from numerous thousands of different applications, over various clusters each with up to tens of thousands of machines. Source : Google Borg ...

Answer (1 of 527): This is the best I have ever encountered so far :) [code]// // Dear maintainer: // // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine, // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was, // please increment the following counter as a warning // to the next guy: // // ...

Answer (1 of 54): As Gabe Rivera, Neil Kandalgaonkar, and others have mentioned, "News" today is meant to be a shared experience, and often simply corresponds to the most popular stories that everyone should know about. However, the success of almost any product that serves as an information sou...

Answer (1 of 2): 1. Primary Use Case: While both are intended for analytics, Shark's primary use case is providing SQL to an (extremely fast) in-memory database, with support also for on-disk (or abstract) data sources. Presto is designed to be a fast SQL engine for the latter, and does not have ...

Answer (1 of 2): [UPDATED, JAN 2016] In 2015, 500 Startups generated ~$14M in revenue from several sources including management fees, accelerator program tuition, events & conferences, partnerships & sponsorships, & education. In the future, we may also make money based on carry (aka profit) fro...

Answer (1 of 3): I think Corona is mainly Facebook's effort to move fast and build what is required for them. Makes sense. Facebook has gone long way in running their forked version, including things like Avatar Node etc. So converging to a community version could have seemed costlier than to imp...

Answer (1 of 12): Apple provided Google with the best marketing campaign for Google Maps ever seen! So, we are all very thankful :) On a more serious note, maps are very difficult (see e.g., What Makes Google's Maps So Good) and Apple seems to have learned this the hard way. I believe that rushi...

Answer (1 of 2): Anyone who uses Tarantool in production uses MessagePack, because it’s part of Tarantool’s fundamental design. This includes Mail.Ru (one of the top-ten largest Internet companies in the world when counted by daily page views), Mastercard (in Asia), Veon (one of the world’s large...

Answer (1 of 11): So I think you need to look at the following question Quora question: How much credibility does the post "Don't use MongoDB" have? Some people who talk about leaving MongoDB: * Anonymous: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=FD3xe6Jt * Zopyx: http://www.zopyx.de/blog/goodbye-mongo...

Answer (1 of 3): Twitter might have migrated because Redis offers persistence to key-value (k-v) items, whereas memcached k-v is all in memory with no persistence. Redis also supports various data-structures like hash, list, set, etc, whereas memcached is only represented as byte array.