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yep. the biological term is "spandrel" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)

Interesting, this is the same argument made by social theorist Evengy Morozov: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/data-p...

'Spandrel' is the technical term for a feature that is the byproduct of some other evolutionary adaptation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)

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Link for the lazy https://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/fractal-alerts/

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Facebook uses a fan-out-on-read approach http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/Did-Facebook-devel...

Not a link to the full paper, but a summary is presented here: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/17/paper-feeding-fren...

In addition, the Redis config file allows you to specify an eviction policy when the maximum memory limit is reached: # volatile-lru -> remove the key with an expire set using an L…

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