Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 26th, 2019

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Found! The One Ring. In space!

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• $30 million: Apple's per month AWS bill (a ~50% reduction); 73%: Azure YoY growth; 3,500: times per day andon cords are pulled at Toyota; $1 trillion: size of micromobility market; $1 billion: cryptopiracy is the new sea piracy; $702 million: Tesla fist quarter loss; $5.0 billion: FTC Facebook fine; 1.56 billion: Facebook DAUs, 8% growth; 93%: Facebook mobile advertising revenue out of total; 40%: internet traffic driven by bots; one litre per hour: required by Roman galley oarsmen; 1200: Fortnite World Cup cheaters; 26: states ban community broadband; $50M: Slack yearly AWS spend; 575: companies paying slack $100k/year; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • Claude Shannon: Then there’s the idea of dissatisfaction. By this I don’t mean a pessimistic dissatisfaction of the world — we don’t like the way things are — I mean a constructive dissatisfaction. The idea could be expressed in the words, This is OK, but I think things could be done better. I think there is a neater way to do this. I think things could be improved a little. In other words, there is continually a slight irritation when things don’t look quite right; and I think that dissatisfaction in present days is a key driving force in good scientists.
  • Albert Kao: A feature of modular structure is that there’s always information loss, but the effect of that information loss on accuracy depends on the environment. Surprisingly, in complex environments, the information loss even helps accuracy in a lot of situations.
  • Eduards Sizovs: Be the company that says: we are hiring mentoring.
  • ???: There Is No Shortage of Talent. There's a Shortage of Suckers. 
  • You know the drill.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 19th, 2019

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Spirit? Smoke? Lightning? Nope. It's a gorgeous LIDAR image showing 1500 years of Willamette River movement (@Blacky_Himself)

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• 536: IRS tax return submissions per second; 400,000: drone planted trees in a day; 200 million: smart speaker observers installed by year end; 54 million: GoT pirated in first 24 hours; 123,052: kg of crashed human spacecraft on the surface of the moon; 610 pounds: 128 kilobytes of  IBM S/360 core memory; 33%: per account month over month Lambda function growth; $100,000: Netflix bug bounty payout; $1 million: Shopify bug bount payout; ~$2300: cost to transfer 23TB from S3 to Backblaze B2 in 7 hours; 14%: Netflix users share passwords; 88%: believe P != NP; 30-90: minutes saved by StackOverflow per week; 83%: US teens have an iPhone; $2m: Microsoft bug bounty payout; $1 million: made by Colin Cowherd on 331 million Facebook page views, moving more to Instagram; 0: lines of code in Pong; ~95%: redis is slower when GDPR complient;


• Quotable Quotes:
  • melodysheep: The universe has only just begun.
  • @matthew_d_green: I spent the year before Heartbleed visiting important people in DC trying to convince them OpenSSL was a mess, and they should fund it as “critical infrastructure”. They laughed and told me that term referred to dams and power plants.
  • Tim Cook: No
  • @asymco: Among 8,000 U.S. high school students surveyed, 83% have an iPhone, 9% Android. 86% plan their next phone to be an iPhone. -Piper Jaffray Taking Stock With Teens survey
  • @dialtone: Do you know S3 throughput is higher than a SATA 3 controller and almost as much as PCIe 4.0 2x? Depending on the usecase, mounting S3 as a filesystem, not only makes sense, but it saves a LOT of money (and time) as well. You just need to use it a special kind of filesystem.
  • Steven Melendez: By 2022, automation will displace about 75 million jobs worldwide. On the other hand, they will create an estimated 133 million new jobs. The predictions come from extrapolating from surveys sent to more than 300 major employers around the world. 
  • So many more quotes...

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 12th, 2019

Out sick today, but start saving up for that ticket to Mars (more):

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 5th, 2019

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SHUTDOWN ABORT the last Oracle database running Amazon Fulfillment! pic.twitter.com/DorqTua2Lt

— John Darrow (@jdarrow) March 29, 2019

How unhappy do you have to be as a customer to take so much joy in end-of-lifing a product?

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• $40 million: Fortnite World Cup prize money; 89%: of people who like Go say they like Go; 170 million: paid iCloud accounts; 533: days bacteria lived on the outside of ISS; 95%: BTC volume is fake; 51: LTE vulnerabilities found by fuzzing; 13,000: CRISPR edits in a single cell; 5G: 762Mbps down and a 19ms ping; 17,000: awesome Historic Blues & Folk Recordings; 3,236: Amazon broadband LEO satellite network; 5.1 million: emails sent during 10 day spam campaign; 


• Quoteable Quotes:
  • @KimZetter: Crashed Tesla vehicles sold at junk yards and auctions found to contain invasive personal info on driver, including phonebook and calendar info from drivers' paired mobile devices; also found unencrypted video showing what happened just before accident
  • Pete Warden: There are 150 billion embedded processors out there in the world, that’s more than twenty each for every man, woman, and child on earth! Not only did that number amaze me when I first came across it, but the growth rate is an astonishing 20% annually, with no signs of slowing down. That’s much faster than smartphone usage, which is almost flat, or the growth in the number of internet users, which is in the low single digits these days...My objection to the internet of things is that the majority of embedded devices are not connected to any network, and as I’ll discuss in a bit, it’s unlikely that they ever will be, at least more than intermittently.
  • @fharper: But I’m also hurt because the people I cared about, treated me like if I was no one, like if I didn’t deserve to have someone from @npmjs tell me the bad news. People I loved, who at the moment all my accounts were turned off (which was during the meeting), never looked back.
  • Gustav Kuhn: It is only once you start thinking about some of the huge day-to-day challenges our visual system constantly faces that the true wonders of the brain start to emerge. Our brain uses a really clever and almost science-fictional trick that prevents us from living in the past: we look into the future. Our visual system is continuously predicting the future, and the world that you are now perceiving is the world that your visual system has predicted to be the present in the past
  • Young Girl: I’ve thought about deleting instagram, but then I think—what would I do with my life?
  • What are you waiting for?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 29th, 2019

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Uber's microservice Graph. Thousands of microservices. Crazy like a fox? Or just crazy? (@msuriar)

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• 1.5 billion: monthly What's App users; 80 billion: docker downloads in 6 years; 1 billion: players on the App Store. 300,000 games; 13.5 billion: Voyager 1 miles from earth; 11 years: Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter; 500 million: Airbnb guests; 12.5 million bits: information learned by average adult; 7.7%: Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million: Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B: Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • John C. Lilly: When I say we may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less, I mean the substrate, the basic substratum under all else of our metaprograms is our programs. All we are as humans is what is built-in, what has been acquired, and what we make of both of these. So we are the result of the program substrate—the self-metaprogrammer.
  • @andrewhurstdog: I caused a Gmail outage so big it made the national news, by forgetting to dereference a pointer...Right, this comes from blameless postmortems. Firing a person doesn't fix the problem, it removes a person that understands the problem.
  • The more quotes the merrier...

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

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Van Gogh? Nope. A satellite image of phytoplankton populations or algae blooms in the Baltic Sea. (NASA)

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• .5 billion: weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m: new US exascale computer; $1.7 billion: EU's newest fine on Google; flat: 2018 global box office; up: digital rentals, sales, and subscriptions to streaming services; 43%: Dutch say let AI run the country; 2 min: time from committing an AWS key to Github to first attack; 40: bugs in blockchain platforms found in 30 days; 100%: Norwegian government 2025 EV target; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • @raganwald: You know what would really help restore confidence? Have members of the executive leadership team, and Boeing’s board of directors, fly on 737 Max’s, every day, for a month. Let them dogfood the software patch. I am 💯 serious.
  • skamille: I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore?
  • @adriancolyer: "eRPC (efficient RPC) is a new general-purpose remote procedure call (RPC) library that offers performance comparable to specialized systems, while running on commodity CPUs in traditional datacenter networks based on either lossy Ethernet or lossless fabrics… We port a production grade implementation of Raft state machine replication to eRPC without modifying the core Raft source code. We achieve 5.5 µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA."
  • @matthewstoller: I just looked at Netflix’s 10K. The company is burning through cash. $3B this year, $4B next year. Debt skyrocketing. It all looks good when capital is cheap I guess.
  • @BrentToderian: What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? Thanks to #Ghent, Belgium’s Deputy Mayor @filipwatteeuw for sharing the secrets of their urban biking transformation (with jumps in walking & transit too). 
  • @slobodan_: "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. At some point, the e-mail I send over WiFi will hit a wire, of course"
  • Yep, there are more quotes...

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 15th, 2019

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The web is 30! Some say it's not the web we wanted. But if we got that web, would it have ever grown so big? Worse usually is better.

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• 300%: AWS IoT growth per year; 74%: mobile games user spending in the App store; 31.4 trillion: new record for calculating digits of pi (121 days); 112Gbps: Intel's SerDes; 100M: image and video dataset; 1.5 trillion suns: weight of the Milky Way; 300+: backdoored apps on GitHub; 10%: hacked self-driving cars needed to bring traffic to a halt; $3 million: Marriott data breach cost after insurance; 


• Quoteable Quotes:
  • @kelseyhightower: Platform in a box solutions that are attempting to turn Kubernetes into a PaaS are missing the "as a service" part. It's more like PaaR: Platform as a Responsibility. Your responsibility to purchase, staff, patch, scale, and upgrade.
  • DHH: We’re stopping all major product development at Basecamp for the moment, and dedicating all our attention to fixing these single points of failure that the recent cloud outages have revealed. We’re also going to pull back from our big migration to the cloud for a while, until we’re able to comfortably commit to a multi-region, multi-provider setup that’s more resilient against these outages...We were using Google Cloud Storage, but given too many issues big and small over the year, we’ll be migrating to AWS S3 for storage going forward.
  • Daniel Ek: after careful consideration, Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission (EC), the regulatory body responsible for keeping competition fair and nondiscriminatory. In recent years, Apple has introduced rules to the App Store that purposely limit choice and stifle innovation at the expense of the user experience—essentially acting as both a player and referee to deliberately disadvantage other app developers. After trying unsuccessfully to resolve the issues directly with Apple, we’re now requesting that the EC take action to ensure fair competition.
  • Many more quotes await your reading pleasure...

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

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A highly simplified diagram of serverless. (@jbesw)

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• 5%: France's new digital tax revolution; $15 trillion: AI contribution to global GDP by 2030; 70%: better response time using HTTP keep-alive in lambda; 115 million: Akamai found bots (per day) compromising user accounts by credential stuffing; 83%: of all internet traffic is API calls, not HTML; $1 million: first millionaire bug-bounty hacker is 19 years old; 15%: mooch their Netflix account; 5%: Microsoft's app store take; $15: Tensorflow at the edge; 30%: first quarter drop in DRAM prices; $2 billion: IBM's microkernel folly; ~1TWh: lithium-ion batteries production per year by 2030; 25%: Tesla supercharger time improvement by a software update; 


• Quoteable Quotes:
  • Jeff Bezos: I've witnessed this incredible thing happen on the internet over the last two decades. I started Amazon in my garage 24 years ago — drove packages to the post office myself. Today we have 600,000-plus people, millions and millions of customers, a very large company. How did that happen in such a short period of time? It happened because we didn't have to do any of the heavy lifting. All of the heavy-lifting infrastructure was already in place for it. There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet. There was already a payment system — it was called the credit card. There was already a transportation network called the US Postal Service, and Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post, all over the world, that could deliver our packages. We didn't have to build any of that heavy infrastructure. An even more stark example is Facebook. Here's a guy who literally, in his dorm room, started a company — Mark Zuckerberg started a company in his dorm room, which is now worth half a trillion dollars — less than two decades ago.
  • @paul_snively: You say "convention over configuration;" I hear "ambient information stuck in someone's head." You say "configuration over hardcoding;" I hear "information in a different language that must be parsed, can be malformed, or not exist."
  • So many more quotes...

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 1st, 2019

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10 years of AWS architecture increasing simplicity or increasing complexity? (Michael Wittig)

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• 1.3 billion: npm package downloads per day; 20: honeybee communication signals used to coordinate thousands of workers; 71: average global life expectancy; 120K: max inflight SQS messages; 80%: shared code between iOS, Android, the web; 1 TB: microSD card; 20%: increase in value wind energy using ML; 64%: respondents cite optimizing cloud spend as the topvinitiative; 250: drones augmenting small military units; 35,880: record robots shipped to North American companies; 50K: aerial photos of the UK; 119%: increase in demand for AI talent; 18TB: MAMR hard drive; $20 million: Pinterest paid more than expected for AWS; 100,000: MySQL connections; 19%: all requests come from Bots, APIs, and search engine crawlers; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • @evazhengll: A surgeon in #China performed world’s 1st remote operation using '#5G Surgery' on animal, removing its liver, through controlling robotic arms in a location 30 miles away. It was made possible by using a low latency of 0.1 seconds, the lower the latency, the more responsive the robot
  • @AWSonAir: .@McDonalds uses Amazon ECS to scale to support 20,000 orders per second. #AWSSummit
  • @antoniogm: Know why the European startup scene sucks? Because American startups have a huge, high-GDP, early-adopter market from day one, and they internationalize AFTER scaling. Euros have to internationalize IN ORDER TO scale, and most die in the process. GDPR makes this *worse*.
  • Ivan Ivanitskiy: Even though blockchain does not allow for modification of data, it cannot ensure such data is correct.
  • @kelseyhightower: Kubernetes is for people building platforms. If you are a developer building your own platform (AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, or Heroku clone), then Kubernetes is for you.
  • @adrianco: I think the main thing cloud native apps do that datacenter apps don’t do is scale elastically (even down to zero in some cases) and maintain high utilization, so you stop paying when you stop using the resource.
  • @kellabyte: Also almost every mention of SEDA  is incorrect IMO. If you read the paper the goal of the paper was to dynamically adjust CPU resources by *CHAINED* queues where thread pools can move threads between stages so that stages who needed more compute time got more threads.
  • So much more...

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019

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Isn't inetd a better comp? (link)

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• 2%: of sales spent by consumer packaged goods companies on R&D (14% for tech); 272 million: metric tons of plastic are produced each year around the globe; 100+ fps: Google's Edge TPU; 6,000: bugs per million lines of code; 2.2 GB/sec: SIMD JSON parser; 20-30%: fall in DRAM prices; 8x: Russian hackers faster than North Korean hackers; 50%: EV car sales in China by 2025;


• Quoteable Quotes:
  • @davygreenberg: If I do a job in 30 minutes it’s because I spent 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.
  • @PaulDJohnston: Lambda done badly is still better than Kubernetes done well
  • Ross Mcilroy: we now believe that speculative vulnerabilities on today's hardware defeat all language-enforced confidentiality with no known comprehensive software mitigations, as we have discovered that untrusted code can construct a universal read gadget to read all memory in the same address space through side-channels. In the face of this reality, we have shifted the security model of the Chrome web browser and V8 to process isolation.
  • @ben11kehoe: Statelessness is not the critical property of #serverless compute, it's ephemerality. Being positively limited in duration means the provider can *transparently* manage the platform, no scheduled (or unscheduled, in Fargate's case) downtime needed.
  • The over under on the remaining number of quotes is 15.
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