Many social-media and Internet-of-Things services have large numbers of tiny objects, each a few hundred bytes or less. For example, edges in Facebook’s social graph, which are needed to connect friends, posts, and images among other content, average under 100 bytes. Twitter twee…

This blog post is adapted from the Delphi blog, originally published on March 10th, 2021. Again, thank you to the Allegheny County Health Department, the DELPHI Group, Chris Scott, and Roni Rosenfeld. One of the Delphi Group’s goals is to create informative tools for healthcare o…