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Should software architectures
include parasites? They increase diversity and complexity in the food web.
- 10 Million: classic hockey stick growth pattern for GitHub repositories
- Quotable Quotes:
- Seymour Cray: A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into IO-bound problems.
- Robert Sapolsky: And why is self-organization so beautiful to my atheistic self? Because if complex, adaptive systems don’t require a blue print, they don’t require a blue print maker. If they don’t require lightning bolts, they don’t require Someone hurtling lightning bolts.
- @swardley: Asked for a history of PaaS? From memory, public launch - Zimki ('06), BungeeLabs ('06), Heroku ('07), GAE ('08), CloudFoundry ('11) ...
- @neil_conway: If you're designing scalable systems, you should understand backpressure and build mechanisms to support it.
- Scott Aaronson...the brain is not a quantum computer. A quantum computer is good at factoring integers, discrete logarithms, simulating quantum physics, modest speedups for some combinatorial algorithms, none of these have obvious survival value. The things we are good at are not the same thing quantum computers are good at.
- @rbranson: Scaling down is way cooler than scaling up.
- @rbranson: The i2 EC2 instances are a huge deal. Instagram could have put off sharding for 6 more months, would have had 3x the staff to do it.
- @mraleph: often devs still approach performance of JS code as if they are riding a horse cart but the horse had long been replaced with fusion reactor
- Now we know the cost of bandwidth: Netflix’s new plan: save a buck with SD-only streaming.
- Massively interesting Stack Overflow thread on Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? Compilers may grant a hidden boon or turn traitor with a deep deceit. How do you tell? It's about branch prediction.
- Can your database scale to 1000 cores? Nope. Concurrency Control in the Many-core Era: Scalability and Limitations: We conclude that rather than pursuing incremental solutions, many-core chips may require a completely redesigned DBMS architecture that is built from ground up and is tightly coupled with the hardware.
- Not all SSDs are created equal. Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes. With a follow up. If data on your SSD can't survive a power outage it ain't worth a damn.
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