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- @pbailis: Big ups to AWS folks for following up re: all of my questions on cr1 provisioning. We saw a huge win moving from m1.xl to cr1.8xl
- @rob_carlson: Packet switching via containers --> almost 8X increase in trade; what will #drones bring? What is optimal mesh size?
- @mrtazz: “an Open Source, Clojure-based DevOps platform” congratulations, I now have no idea what you’re talking about
- @KentBeck: If you can't make engineering decisions based on data, then make engineering decisions that result in data.
- @cassandralondon: Cassandra on AWS SSDs - a perfect fit because you don't get write amplification
- If you think about it, a cloud as a rule driven, capability rich environment, accessible over a large surfaced API, plays the same role as physics in biology. Software must specify every little detail. Biology relies on the laws of physics to do the work. A cloud provides the response to the call of programmers. Complex grunt work is just done, as if by nature. Peter M. Hoffmann: The amount of information contained in our DNA is staggering, but it is not nearly enough to specify each molecule’s or cell’s location, or even the shape of an organ. Rather than being a blueprint (as DNA is often mistakenly called), DNA is more like a cooking recipe. When I make a cake, I don’t have to specify where each starch or sugar molecule goes. I just follow the instructions, and the molecules go where they are supposed to. Much of the information to make a cake or a human being is contained in the laws of physics and chemistry. Molecules “know” how to put themselves together.
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