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  Vishwanath Patil (@patilvishi) reported 3 minutes ago

  Horizontal Scaling ≠ Vertical Scaling I still see these two terms confused in interviews and architecture discussions. The difference is actually simple: Horizontal Scaling (Scale Out) ➜ Add more servers or instances to distribute the load. Vertical Scaling (Scale Up) ➜ Add more CPU, RAM, or storage to a single server. Quick memory trick 👇 - Horizontal = More Machines - Vertical = More Power When to use what? Horizontal Scaling - Better for high traffic applications - Improves fault tolerance - Supports almost unlimited growth - Common in cloud-native and microservice architectures Vertical Scaling - Easier to implement - Great for smaller workloads - Limited by the hardware capacity of one machine - A single server failure can impact the entire application Real-world example: Need to handle Black Friday traffic? ➜ Add 10 more application servers (Horizontal). Your database is CPU-bound? ➜ Upgrade from 8 vCPUs to 32 vCPUs (Vertical). The biggest internet-scale systems- Netflix, Amazon, Google, and many SaaS platforms primarily rely on horizontal scaling to serve millions of users. Saved this as a handwritten cheat sheet for quick revision. Hope it helps!

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  ujfrance (@france_uj) reported 5 minutes ago

  "The real reason emerging markets need 24/7 settlement." Money doesn't stop moving after banking hours, because people don't. A 24/7 financial system removes settlement delays, reduces costs, and matches how the real world actually operates. The technology exists; legacy infrastructure and institutional inertia remain major barriers. 🧵 The 24/7 argument isn't ideological; it's just acknowledging reality. A Lagos trader needs to settle a shipment invoice at 2 AM. A construction worker sends remittances to his village on a Friday evening. São Paulo exporters hit payment deadlines that don't care about New York's bank hours. Finance pretending to operate 9–5 isn't some stability feature,it's a bottleneck. Imagine if Amazon took your order at 8 PM but the warehouse refused to touch it until 9 AM the next day. You'd think the system was broken. Yet that’s exactly how we treat global finance. It's a massive pain point for the people and businesses moving money. That's not equilibrium. That's friction being monetized. Nostro-nostro delays. Correspondent banking spreads. FX resets every 24 hours. Every hour you can't settle ties up capital, increases costs, and pushes participants toward informal alternatives. In many corridors, Hawala moves faster than SWIFT. A trader in emerging markets often can't afford to wait. Force everyone into the same settlement window and you create artificial congestion, volatility, and unnecessary batching. Meanwhile, the real world operates around the clock. Institutions with direct access to SWIFT and correspondent networks navigate these constraints more easily. Smaller players and cross-border actors face higher costs, longer delays, and fewer options. That's a power imbalance baked into the legacy architecture. The technology to change this exists today. This is exactly why @KiiChainio is being built. As a Cosmos SDK-powered, EVM-compatible Layer 1, KiiChain is designed to enable 24/7 liquidity and atomic settlement while reducing reliance on traditional correspondent banking workflows. How it works: A Lagos trader gets an on-chain NGN/USD quote backed by continuous liquidity. Instead of moving through multiple intermediaries and settlement windows, the transaction can settle atomically in seconds. No waiting for correspondent banks. No waiting for New York to wake up. A construction worker sends a remittance at 11 PM on Friday. With KiiChain's fast finality, value moves when it's needed, not when banks reopen. No weekend settlement delays. No waiting for another timezone to start its business day. Real-time value for real-world needs. The internet didn't ask permission to be always-on. It became indispensable because it matched how humans actually operate. Finance needs the same realization. The future belongs to always, on settlement, and KiiChain is building the rails for it. 🦎 @KiiChainio

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  Nomad (@johnross27nov1) reported 5 minutes ago

  '...Left-wing billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reportedly admitted that his purchase of the far-left Washington Post was the worst investment he ever made and that the disgraced newspaper is staffed with “terrible” people.

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  Karthikeyan (ProTecTor😋) (@Karthik00199800) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Rebecca_US_ @Abhishekkkk10 Swiggy and amazon strictly says never accept never accept broken seal No seal no deal Nobody wants to use used products anyway

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  Jose Silva (@JoseSil66073647) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SamaHoole Its terrible these residues flow down to the Gulf. Same challenge from the Amazon and Congo rivers. The spike in sargassum and other harmful water algal blooms are exacerbated by these fertilizers.

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  Avik Maity (@AvikMai29926378) reported 13 minutes ago

  @amazonIN @amazon Your delivery person is so unprofessional that he didn't even contacted me and marked my delivery as On Hold. I have been facing this late delivery issue since a quite a long time. Even after multiple complaints there is no improvement.

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  suchit bauskar (@bauskarsuchit) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AmazonHelp My order not completed due to an Amazon Pay Later issue. The order failed, amount was charged and the refund has not been received yet, days have passed without resolution. Kindly investigate and process refund immediately #AmazonIndia #RefundPending #AmazonPayLater

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  David Robinson (@CalgaryDave) reported 14 minutes ago

  If there was an Amazon Store where you could pay $25, and get your Alberta Independence Lawn sign in the mail - would you buy one? Or wait until an event near you opened where there was availability? Poll:

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  Mazi okwuoma (@MaziEzike_Nedu) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Dexerto An Amazon driver with $3 million in the bank? The side hustle went way too far. Additionally, Cheating on exams became a multimillion dollar business. The university system is broken.

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  Dheeraj sharma🇮🇳 (@Dheerajbhart8) reported 18 minutes ago

  Still my issue is not resolve @amazon It's not usefull to buying products from u

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  Sindhoor Maddala (@SindhoorLuvsLyf) reported 18 minutes ago

  @AmazonHelp I have DMed the issue. Expecting the compensation to be provided for the serious mixup caused

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  Mr Fren (@KaneJen29573064) reported 29 minutes ago

  @LordsManor Psst, it's got more bugs than the Amazon. * Slow motion villagers, * Villagers stuck on random ****. * Oxes guiding people. * Villagers not working. * Villagers disappearing. * bandit raids spawn 6 squads. * villagers move like they're stuck in mud.

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  🌸 Evie 🌸 (@dubiousevie) reported 30 minutes ago

  @iampricelexx_ From "The Strangers: Chapter 1" (2024). After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motives. You can Watch it on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Netflix.

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  Ritesh Ora one red star (@oraone_ritesh) reported 31 minutes ago

  @ABPNews flipkart Amazon they all ask otp. If we give otp. Than our money will be hacked so who is responsible for that. Kindly tell delivery company do not ask for otp or else next time i 👊beat down delivery person who ask for otp so news tell this thing too all Indian people

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  prathap uppi (@uppidada7) reported 33 minutes ago

  @AmazonHelp My problem is not solved yet