Likewise, we already have 3 machines to handle the read load.

Like I just said, if there is more food to collect, the patrollers, the midden workers, the nest maintenance workers will all change to forage.

And finally, the midden workers put some kind of territorial chemical in the garbage.

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Or keep those worms to yourself and start a business.

There's the nest entrance, there's a pencil for scale.

These are things that are hidden away on our planet.

The queen just lays the eggs. There's no management.

I'm less likely to forage.

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They smell with their antennae.

And this shows a recently virgin queen. Here's her wings.

That's not a frivolous activity, because, I mean, think of ants.

The nest maintenance workers become foragers.

Because that's how you get ants.

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Replication lag occurs when we send a write to the master and we want to replicate it to our slaves, but we don't finish replicating it when a read comes in directly to one of the slaves.

No, so when you write to the master, it hits a trigger, which then inserts the same query into a queue and that's replicated to all the slaves.

So all of our database writes go into this one master database.

Isn't it unusual?

What? Big damn ants!

So for example, if I put out extra food, everybody else the midden workers stop doing midden work and go get the food, they become foragers.

Nature isn't stupid, and it selected for play.

Throughout the animal kingdom, for example ants.

And it stays that size until the queen dies and there's nobody to make more ants, when she's about 15 or 20 years old.

Don't think little of the ants' lives.

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In the beginning you see the ants just kind of engaging with the fiber optics microscope.

You can also see this in the ants just outside the nest entrance like these.

On one day, it'll all be here, and then the next day they'll move it over there, and then they'll move it back.

Now, remember replication lag we discussed this I'll go over it again real quick occurs in this situation.

The first is that the experience of the ant of each ant can't be very predictable.

What happens if you have too much data for one machine?

This was something done at the Cartier Foundation.

And it's when they reach this stable size, in numbers of ants, that they start to reproduce.

And what we're learning is that an ant uses the pattern of its antennal contacts, the rate at which it meets ants of other tasks, in deciding what to do.

Does it matter to the foragers what the nest maintenance workers are doing?

Maybe it's like an ant hive.

A center for ants?

It is my business, cupcake.

What goals is this ant trying to achieve by climbing this blade of grass?