they probably have different clusters for different use cases: att big companies, this will lead to a very long tail of small clusters.
cassandra struggles to scale horizontally after a while so i am guessing that they also do some sort of application level sharding across multiple clusters
I know you might not be interested in anything chromium-based since this thread is about firefox, but qutebrowser[1] is a great solution for anybody looking for vimium/pentadactyl-like experience.
A very interesting follow-up to an insightful post. I think the answer might lie in why the american business culture is more efficient in the first place.
I believe american business is more fluid, allowing for better arbitrage opportunities that ultimately leads to better arbitrage abilities for its actors.
More law and protection has the same effect as more code: it slows things down because it increases dramatically the amount of requirements you have to contend with. A double edged sword indeed!
Your computation is incorrect, 3 days out of 365 is 1% of downtime, not 0.1%. I believe your error stems from reporting .1% as 0.1. Indeed:
0.001 (.1%) * 8760 (365d*24h) = 8.76h
Alternatively, the common industry standard in infrastructure (the place I work at at least,) is 4 nines, so 99.99% availability, which is around 52 mins a year or 4 mins a month iirc. There's not as much room as you'd think! :)
Immigrating alone to a previously unknown country is very hard. I did it with my spouse and we struggled a lot.
I also had to stay in my job for 5+ years to keep my visa, I am just out of it now. I also struggle with on-off work ethic. Mostly depends on how interesting the work is (after 6 years it often is not.)
The best advice I have is to find ways to entertain yourself (in ways that make you grow, OR NOT) aside from the job. Looks like you’re thinking about it A LOT, for understandable reasons.
cassandra struggles to scale horizontally after a while so i am guessing that they also do some sort of application level sharding across multiple clusters