Our backend infrastructure at Tinder relies on Redis-based caching to fulfill the requests generated by more than 2 billion uses of the Swipe® feature per day and hosts more than 30 billion matches to 190 countries globally. Most of our data operations are reads, which motivates the general data flow architecture of our backend microservices.
Source: medium.com
In 2026 is there demand for 7X more manufactured storage annually and is there sufficient value for this storage to spend $122B more annually (2.4X) for this storage? Unlike HDD, tape magnetic physics is not the limiting issues since tape bit cells are 60X larger than HDD bit cells … The projected tape areal density in 2025 (90 Gbit/in2) is 13x smaller than today’s HDD areal density and has already been demonstrated in laboratory environments.
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I started to compile a list of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes. It should make it easier for people tasked with operations to find outage reports to learn from. Since we started with Kubernetes at Zalando in 2016, we collected many internal postmortems.
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