Interesting Snippets from 2013-01-31

• Internet 2012 in numbers

  There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it’s impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway. How many emails were sent during 2012? How many domains are there? What’s the most popular web browser? How many Internet users are there? These are some of the questions we’ll answer for you.

• Databases: A Series of Tubes

  Database technologies don't map into a terribly clean taxonomy, with a range of architectures and intended applications. This is a neat way of connecting together entities that share characteristics with other entities, and can also have multiple charcteristics themselves. The section from SkySQL to Oracle Exalytics, reminiscent of the District Line / Circle Line / Metropolitain line overlap, is a great way of representing how the ways these databases are both similar and different.

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