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Scaling to exabytes and beyond
- kibwen 11y agoMuch of the Magic Pocket core infrastructure is written in Rust, and the project manager is answering questions about the code over in /r/rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4adabk/the_epic_story_of_dropboxs_exodus_from_the_amazon/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4adabk/the_epic_story...
- NoMoreNicksLeft 11y agoAny idea if this makes it the highest profile slash largest project to use Rust?
- IceyEC 11y agoServo is still the largest Rust project
- sciurus 11y agoMore discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282948
- jlebar 11y ago> annual data durability of over 99.9999999999% I know dropbox isn't the only company to publish numbers like this, but it really bugs me. This is 12 nines, or 1 in 10-trillion. To put this into perspective, the earth is 4.5 billion years old. During that time, we've seen multiple mass-extinction events. Suggesting that there's a less than 1/1e13 chance of cataclysmic event (megavolcano, nuclear war, pandemic) next year, when there have been many in the past 4.5e9 years, is ridiculous. But, I hear you say, maybe they're talking about only a certain class of issues -- failures in their stack itself. First, I'd say that they should make that clear. But second, surely the chance that there's a bug somewhere in their stack (going all the way from their datacenter silicon to internet infrastructure, to consumer machines, and back) is greater than the chance of e.g. a cataclysm sometime in the next million years.
- misnome 11y agoDepends on what "Data durability means" - not uptime, at least. In terms of the smallest unit e.g. 1 bit, it's the equivalent of losing less than 1 bit per 117gb per year (1/1e-12/8/1024/1024/1024)