Hey, it's HighScalability time:

The world ends not with a bang, but with 1 exaFLOP of bitcoin whimpers.

• Quotable Quotes:
  • @EtienneRoy: Algorithm:  you must encode and leverage your ignorance, not only your knowledge #hadoopsummit - enthralling
  • Chris Brenny: A material is nothing without a process. While the constituent formulation imbues the final product with fundamental properties, the bridge between material and function has a dramatic effect on its perception and use.
  • @gallifreyan: Using AWS c1, m1, m2? @adrianco says don't. c3, m3, r3 are now better and cheaper. #cloudconnect #ccevent
  • @christianhern: Mobile banking in the UK: 1,800 transactions per MINUTE. A "seismic shift" that banks were unprepared for


• While we are waiting for that epic article deeply comparing Google's Cloud with AWS, we have Adrian Cockcroft's highly hopped slide comparing the two. Google: no enterprise customers, no reservation options, need more regions and zones, need lower inter-zone latency, no SSD options. AWS: no per minute billing, need simpler discount options, need more regions and zones, no real PaaS strategy, not instance migration.
• Technology has change us from a demo or die culture to a deploy or die culture. We see this in software, but it's happening in hardware too says, Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab), in this interview.
• The Curmudgeon of Truth declares I reckon your message broker might be a bad idea: Engineering in practice is not a series of easy choices, but a series of tradeoffs. Brokers aren’t bad, but the tradeoffs you’re making might not be in your favour." < Good discussion on Hacker News.
• High phive this. Your application may already achieved a degree of consciousness. An information integration theory of consciousness: consciousness corresponds to the capacity of a system to integrate information.
• People really really like to talk. Line, a messaging app that's big in Japan, surpasses 400 Million Registered Users, 10 billion chat messages per day, 1.8 billion stickers per day, and over 12 million calls per day.

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