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		HillaryBriss on Oct 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers > ...Facebook's data centers and ops are now the 6th wonder of the tech world ... At the risk of not being taken seriously, er, what are the first 5 wonders of the tech world? Is AWS #1? Is Google's huge swarm of web search indexing machines #1? What makes it onto that list?

TimTheTinker on Oct 8, 2018 [–]

I didn't mean that particular ordinal literally... personally, I'm impressed by how they're able to achieve such a high level of uptime, data integrity, and near-realtime communication.

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