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It's hard for me to grok that LinkedIn (or any company, really) has more than 1 exabyte of analytical data.

• Scaevolus 3y ago
  That's about 1GB per user. If you imagine them storing every interaction anyone has with the site-- every file upload, every page load, every mouse movement-- and throw in some duplication-- it's not completely impossible.
  • dmbche 3y ago
    Isn't 1gb per user absurdly large?
    • Teever 3y ago
      Makes you wonder how much facebook and google have per user.
    • woleium 3y ago
      not for gmail, or photos, but it does seem that way for linkedin, probably, unless they like storing uncompressed logs.
  • 0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
    Do these logs ever get pruned? Is it worth knowing that 10 years ago, Johnny took 1.5 seconds to click the upvote button? Or is it just easier to keep it, imagining some what-if value extraction?