What bleeding edge infra work is going on in other countries?

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Apr 15, 2017 8 Comments

Seems like most interesting scaling/infra work is going on at places like Google and Facebook in the US, and with branches of a few US companies and a lab or two (academic stuff tends to either be impractical or too far into the future) in other countries. What else is there?

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  • Google / Eng
    hjsksks

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    hjsksks
    And what do you think is behind the billions of transactions every day for Alibaba?
    Apr 15, 2017 1
  • Tableau
    tab4tube

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    tab4tube
    Have you heard of Baidu?
    Apr 15, 2017 0
  • Google / Eng
    GanguBai

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    GanguBai
    Any Indian or Chinese mid size+ tech company has to do high scale infra work. Like WeChat, Flipkart, Baidu, Ola cabs.

    But here's something you don't consider everyday - govt tech programs. India has a project to provide biometric authentication to it's entire population of 1.2 billion, and make a Boolean check highly available via online APIs. Indian Railways gets more qps than many big US tech companies can boat of, and those qps are almost always transactional in nature.
    Apr 16, 2017 0
  • Facebook
    xxM1L0R5xx

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    xxM1L0R5xx
    OP
    Good point. Chinese companies use Mandarin internally, right? Getting in as an English speaker is probably hard.
    Apr 15, 2017 0
  • Amazon / Eng
    asd123456

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    asd123456
    I am sorry to hijack the question, but I literally laughed out loud when I did not see AWS in your examples for the US.
    Apr 16, 2017 1
    • Microsoft / Eng
      AmIEvil

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      AmIEvil
      Isn't all the bleeding edge work in AWS happening in South Africa? That's a relevant answer to the OP's question, BTW.
      Apr 17, 2017