Transcript Scaling the Social Internet Why does Google want Akamai? What is Akamai?

Scaling the Social Internet
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Why does Google want Akamai?
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What is Akamai? http://bloom.bg/pLLYph
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http://bloom.bg/pLLYph
What is 520TB/day about?
Akamai and the law? http://bit.ly/pxy7Qd
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What are Anonymous and Lulzsec?
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From Akamai to Facebook
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http://bit.ly/pU94bU or http://bit.ly/n1nyF6
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What does Akamai actually do?
Latency, Bandwidth, Packet loss
Overlay network
NIH issues?
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http://bit.ly/r4EdlQ
http://bit.ly/nTKocG
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What is Ping?
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See http://bit.ly/rdmJ4N
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network-tools.com
How long to 212.58.244.66?
How long to 118.145.6.35?
Differences from traceroute?
See http://bit.ly/qpOQ0m
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What is bandwidth of wireless network?
Is this an issue for Facbook? Google? YouTube?
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What does scaling Facebook mean?
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http://bit.ly/pCcbU5
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Numbers in the beginning of this video
Data interaction
PHP is simple
http://bit.ly/r8POLQ
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Is this a better view of Facebook?
What about advertising?
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How to …
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I want to watch The Social Network now
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What are my options?
Can I do this legally?
I want to code in PHP now
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What are my options?
Can I do this legally?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4p2t9JQ7_Y
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Vernacular: is understanding essential?
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http://bit.ly/nolCgc
http://bit.ly/oTlVrV
But if you don’t give a rat’s ass
about performance you can
shoehorn anything into
hashtables and arrays. That’s
why prototyping is so fast in
Ruby.
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Facebook: from scaling to concern
http://bit.ly/qz7zRV
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Who is Landon Cox? Let's check Facebook!
Let's check Google
"My concern is that they're under the
control of a central entity," Cox said. "The
social networks currently control all the
information that users throw into them. I
don't think that's necessarily evil. But it
raises some concerns."
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