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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this beautiful morning:
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Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms. In distributed computing systems nodes reach a
quorum when deciding what to do as a group. It turns out bees also use quorum logic when deciding on where to nest! Bees do it a bit differently of course:
A scout bee votes for a site by spending time at it, somehow the scouts act and interact so that their numbers rise faster at superior sites, and somehow the bees at each site monitor their numbers there so that they know whether they've reached the threshold number (quorum) and can proceed to initiating the swarm's move to this site. Ants use similar mechanisms to control foraging.
Distributed systems may share common mechanisms based on their nature as being a distributed system, the components may not matter that much.
- Fire! Fire! Brent Chapman shows how to put that IT fire out in Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department.
- Scale Fail (part 1). Josh Berkus warns against hopping on the trendy train: Scaling an application is all about management of resources and administrative repeatability. Use data so that you work on real unknowns instead of unknown unknowns. And blocking processes, just don't do it.
- Quotable quotes:
- @Sri_few_words: Every 600 phones, means a new server in data center" - Cloud Computing being driven strongly by smartphones; tablets
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