Friday
Mar022018
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 2nd, 2018
Friday, March 2, 2018 at 9:09AM Hey, it's HighScalability time:
Algorithms described like IKEA instructions. Can anyone assemble these? (Algorithms and data structures)
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- $75 million: Dropbox saved moving out of S3; 159 million: Spotify monthly active users; 80 million: more records added to Have I Been Pwned; 9%: universe expanding faster than predicted; $2,222,279: Warren Buffett won his long bet against hedge fund mangers; 60,000: Mayan houses found in Guatemala using LiDAR; $14.2 billion: PaaS revenue; ~180 million: years until first sun after the big whatever it was; $1,599: cost of stolen Extended Validation (EV) certificate; 8,000X: query speedup using GPU database; 2.4 million: Google requests to be forgotten; 6 minutes: time to IoT device attack on the internet; 103 million: tweets sent about the Olympics; 320,000: increase in Chloe Kim's twitter followers; 150 kg: acorns stored by woodpeckers in a telecom antenna; 0.14ms: Fsync performance on Intel PC-3700; Q: earliest known article on Wikipedia; 800Gbps+: memcached reflection/amplification attacks; 2M+: Google-Landmarks image training set; 3 million: graphics cards purchased by cryptocurrency miners; 30%: Uber and Lyft drivers lose money;
- Quotable Quotes:
- @mikko: Interesting point raised in a reddit thread: Satoshi's original bitcoins are now a quantum canary. Once we see them moving, we’ll know that someone has a functioning advanced quantum computer. It's just too big a prize not to be the first thing you’d do with a quantum computer.
- @brettberson: I just learned from a former longtime Amazon employee, the idea for Prime came from an IC [individual contributor] engineer. He wrote up a 6 page memo. He was inspired by the Costco membership model. It was built as a test. It's now the key pillar of Amazon. The best ideas can come from anywhere.
- Erica Klarreich: In a statistical analysis of nearly 1,000 networks drawn from biology, the social sciences, technology and other domains, researchers found that only about 4 percent of the networks (such as certain metabolic networks in cells) passed the paper’s strongest tests. And for 67 percent of the networks, including Facebook friendship networks, food webs and water distribution networks, the statistical tests rejected a power law as a plausible description of the network’s structure.
- @kpkelleher: 531 ICOs that appeared in 2017 have already vanished. Together, they raised $233 million.
- @darrenrovell: In November 2013, Jamie Siminoff came on Shark Tank valuing his WiFi enabled video doorbell at $7 million. Four sharks passed & @kevinolearytv offered his typical loan/royalty deal. Siminoff passed. That company became @ring & today sold for more than $1 billion to Amazon.
- @tyleralove: As of today @bustle has fully adopted serverless. We’re down to 15 ec2 instances mostly comprised of self-managed HA Redis. We serve upwards of a billion requests to 80 million people using SSR preact and react a month. We are a thriving example of modern JavaScript at scale. We do all of this with a relatively tiny engineering team of 12 while simultaneously building compelling to use product that was never focused on social media audience gaming or egregious engagement metric hacking.
- abetusk: I've heard, and agree with, that 95% of programming doesn't require any deep CS knowledge. The flip side of that is 5% of the time you will and for those 1/20 times you encounter a problem that requires theory, you're dead in the water unless you know how to identify it, how to solve it or where to look for solutions to it.
- @geofft: At which point Trustico's CEO decided to EMAIL 23,000 CUSTOMER PRIVATE KEYS to Digicert, apparently in order to trigger that clause.
- @swardley: The ONLY reason that Amazon is as big as it is today and continuing to grow rather than being constrained (as normally happens) is because competitor executives have utterly failed to adapt. This is not a market failure, it's a failure of executives ..
- Andrei Barysevich: Contrary to a common belief that the security certificates circulating in the criminal underground are stolen from legitimate owners prior to being used in nefarious campaigns, we confirmed with a high degree of certainty that the certificates are created for a specific buyer per request only and are registered using stolen corporate identities, making traditional network security appliances less effective.
- @KentonVarda: After I open sourced Protocol Buffers, the promo committee denied me for promotion (from Senior to Staff) because my packet contained no peer reviews from more-senior engineers who worked closely with me. (There were no such engineers.)
- Jared Diamond: Why is there such widespread public opposition to science and scientific reasoning in the United States, the world leader in every major branch of science?
- @sama: I wonder how much cryptocurrency is slowing the rate of AI progress by wildly driving up the price of GPUs...
- So many more quotes. Don't miss out on all the smart stuff people have said. You will become so much smarter.
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