Friday
Nov022018
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 2nd, 2018
Friday, November 2, 2018 at 9:03AM Wake up! It's HighScalability time:
Here's a dystopian vision of the future: A real announcement I recorded on the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train. (I've subtitled it so you can watch in silence.) pic.twitter.com/ZoRWtdcSMy
— James O'Malley (@Psythor) October 29, 2018
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." — William Gibson
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- $10 billion: Apple services revenue; 1.49B: Facebook daily active users; 34: cache sites for iOS rollout; 87M: paying Spotify users; 20k: Facebook's new large-scale dataset for video description as a new challenge for multi-sentence video description; 6 million: online court case dataset; 125 quadrillion: Sierra supercomputer calculations each second; 1500: per day automated chaos experiments run at Netflix; 12: neurons needed to park a car; 2025: boots on Mars; 600: free online courses; 94%: accuracy of AI lawyer; 4 billion: source code files held in Software Heritage Foundation; 33,606: Facebook headcount;
- Quotable Quotes:
- @cdixon: 1/ There have been many great software-related forum posts over the years. Some favorites…2/ Tim Berners Lee, proposing the World Wide Web in 1991...3/ Linus Torvalds proposing Linux, also in 1991...4/ Marc Andreessen proposing images for web browsers, in 1993...5/ And, of course, Satoshi proposing Bitcoin, 10 years ago today.
- Federal Register: In this final rule, the Librarian of Congress adopts exemptions to the provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) that prohibits circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works, codified in the United States Code.
- @johncutlefish: Them: “Why can’t the teams just focus on shipping!?Maybe it is a generational thing, but these people just keep asking questions....” Me: “But you hired people who solve puzzles / problem solve for a living, what did you expect?”
- David Rosenthal: The big successes in the field haven't come from consensus building around a roadmap, they have come from idiosyncratic individuals such as Brewster Kahle, Roberto di Cosmo and Jason Scott identifying a need and building a system to address it no matter what "the community" thinks. We have a couple of decades of experience showing that "the community" is incapable of coming to a coherent consensus that leads to action on a scale appropriate to the problem. In any case, describing road-mapping as "research" is a stretch.
- Simon Wistow: Observability goes beyond monitoring, enabling the proactive introspection of distributed systems for greater operational visibility. Observability allows you to ask open-ended questions and have the data you need in order to explore the data to find answers. In short, observability gives you the information you need to make better decisions using real data.
- @keithchambers: We use Mesos + Marathon in Yammer at Microsoft. It works fine for us. But long term we don’t want to run any of our own infrastructure (in Yammer) so we will look to move to Service Fabric or Azure Kubernetes Service. We have bigger fish to fry so we’ll be on Mesos for years.
- Hanna Fry: we need something like the FDA for algorithms
- A lot more quotes async and await you....
