Hacker News with Generative AI: Scale

The difference between zoom and scale (css-tip.com)
Do you know the zoom property? It works the same way as a scale transformation but unlike scale, it affects the page layout. In other words, the page layout is recalculated considering the new dimension of the scaled element.
Over 700M events/second: How Cloudflare makes sense of too much data (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare's network provides an enormous array of services to our customers. We collect and deliver associated data to customers in the form of event logs and aggregated analytics. As of December 2024, our data pipeline is ingesting up to 706M events per second generated by Cloudflare's services, and that represents 100x growth since our 2018 data pipeline blog post.
How much RAM and Disk do you have in Prod? (ycombinator.com)
I was talking to a friend and said there aren't _that_ many companies with the scale to truly justify FAANGesque solutions. I've only had two projects where a server couldn't just hold all hot data in 256gb. For most, services I've seen, a laptop + hard drive would suffice.
Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic (theregister.com)
Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic
Pursuits That Can't Scale (workingtheorys.com)
Rare things become common at scale (2014) (asmartbear.com)