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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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HOW AWS S3 SERVES 1 PETABYTE PER SECOND ON TOP OF SLOW HDDS

AWS S3 is a scalable multi-tenant storage service with APIs to store and retrieve objects. It offers extremely high availability and durability at a relatively low cost. What started as a service optimized for backups and media storage for e-commerce websites has grown into the main storage system used for analytics and machine learning on massive data lakes. The growing trend now for entire data infrastructure projects to be based on S3, which gives them the benefit of stateless nodes while outsourcing difficult durability, replication, and load-balancing problems to S3 - this reduces cloud costs.

SOME LOOSELY ORGANIZED THOUGHTS ON THE CURRENT ZEITGEIST - TERENCE TAO

The systems, incentives, and technologies in the modern world have managed to slightly empower the individual while massively empowering large organizations, at the significant expense of small organizations. The imbalanced system provides significant material comforts and some limited feeling of agency, but it has led to individuals feeling disconnected, alienated, lonely, and cynical or pessimistic about the ability to influence future events or meet major challenges. Much of the current debate on societal issues is framed as conflicts between large organizations, conflicts between large organizations and average individuals, or a yearning for a return to a more traditional era.

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