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Technical Challenges of Scale at Twitter

Coding Blocks

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How Many Terabytes Are in an Exabyte?

An exabyte of data was moved into Google Cloud for internal querying purposes. If they shipped hard drives with that much data, like how much would that be? What would the shipping cost be? How many drives fit in a garbage truck? I don't know if there's easy to figure it out to bring that and it figured out. It probably just took so long and used up so many of those storage slots or those slot cost units that it just had to be crazy.

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