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lecture · 15:11 · 5 checkpoints · browser voice

Back-of-the-envelope estimation: size it on a napkin

The numbers to carry in your head (powers of two, seconds in a day, latency, data sizes, throughput) and the four estimates, worked end to end for a Twitter-like service: traffic, storage, bandwidth and servers, plus how to present them.

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W00 · PART 3 · Back-of-the-Envelope Estimation

How big is big?

Previously: the building blocks

Last time, you met the building blocks: CDNs, load balancers, databases, caches, queues.