Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@parzonka

parzonka/_services.txt

Last active September 21, 2016 19:22
Show Gist options

  • Select an option

    Learn more about clone URLs
  • Save parzonka/65503c34606987b11e22ace27e833a22 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Learn more about clone URLs
Save parzonka/65503c34606987b11e22ace27e833a22 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP

Revisions

  1. parzonka revised this gist Sep 21, 2016. No changes.
  2. parzonka created this gist Sep 21, 2016.
    22 changes: 22 additions & 0 deletions _services.txt
    View file
    Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
    @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
    Prefix Symbol Size Example
    yocto y 1 bit Theoretical minimum
    zepto z 1 byte (close enough to 10 bits) Really small APL program
    atto a 10 chars nc -l 8080
    femto f 1 line (roughly 100 chars) netcat piped into something else
    pico p 10 lines tiny python service
    nano n 100 lines small python service
    micro μ 1000 lines typical "smallish" service
    milli m 10,000 lines about as big as "microservices" would go these days, or a small monolithic app
    centi c 100,000 lines decent-sized monolithic app
    deci d 1 million lines large monolitihic app
    none n/a 10 million lines roughly OS-level app
    deca da 100 million lines god help you beyond here
    hecto h 1 billion lines
    kilo k 10 billion lines
    mega M 100 billion lines
    giga G 1 trillion lines
    tera T 10 trillion lines
    peta P 100 trillion lines
    exa E 1 quadrillion lines
    zetta Z 10 quadrillion lines
    yotta Y 100 quadrillion lines