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Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- 40,000: # of people it takes to colonize a star system; 600,000: servers vulnerable to heartbleed
- Quotable Quotes:
- @laurencetratt: High frequency traders paid $300M to reduce New York <-> Chicago network transfers from 17 -> 13ms.
- @talios: People read http://highscalability.com for sexual arousal - jim webber #cm14
- @viktorklang: LOL RT @giltene 2nd QOTD: @mjpt777 “Some people say ‘Thread affinity is for sissies.’Those people don’t make money.”
- @pbailis: Reminder: eventual consistency is orthogonal to durability and data loss as long as you correctly resolve update conflicts.
- @codinghorror: Converting a low-volume educational Discourse instance from Heroku at ~$152.50/month to Digital Ocean at $10/month.
- @FrancescoC: Scary post on kids who can't tell the diff. between atomicity & eventual consistency architecting bitcoin exchanges
- @jboner: "Protocols are a lot harder to get right than APIs, and most people can't get APIs right" - @daveathomas at #reactconf
- @vitaliyk: “Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens—usually.” @nntaleb
- Blazes: Asynchrony * partial failure is hard.
- David Rosenthal: I have long thought that the fundamental challenge facing system architects is to build systems that fail gradually, progressively, and slowly enough for remedial action to be effective, all the while emitting alarming noises to attract attention to impending collapse.
- Brian Wilson: Moral of the story: design for failure and buy the cheapest components you can. :-)
- Just damn. DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches: Levner and his colleagues at Bar Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, made the nanobots by exploiting the binding properties of DNA. When it meets a certain kind of protein, DNA unravels into two complementary strands. By creating particular sequences, the strands can be made to unravel on contact with specific molecules – say, those on a diseased cell. When the molecule unravels, out drops the package wrapped inside.
- Remember those studies where a guerilla walks through the middle of a basketball game and most people don't notice? Attention blindness. 1000 eyeballs doesn't mean anything will be seen. That's human nature. Heartbleed -- another horrible, horrible, open-source FAIL.
- Remember the Content Addressable Web? Your kids won't. The mobile web vs apps is another front on the battle between open and closed systems.
- In Public Cloud Instance Pricing Wars - Detailed Context and Analysis Adrian Cockcroft takes a deep stab at making sense of the recent price cuts by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. AWS users should migrate to the new m3, r3, c3 instances; AWS and Google instance prices are essentially the same for similar specs; Microsoft doesn't have the latest Intel CPUs and isn't pricing against like spec'ed machines; IBM Softlayer pricing is still higher; Moore's law dictates price curves going forward.
- Seth Lloyd: Quantum Machine Learning - QM algorithms are a win because they give exponential speedups on BigData problems. The mathematical structure of QM, because a wave can be at two places at once, is that the states of QM systems are in fact vectors in high dimensional vector spaces. The kind of transformations that happen when particles of light bounce of CDs, for example, are linear transformations on these high dimensional vector spaces. Quantum computing is the effort to exploit quantum systems to allow these linear transformations to perform the kind of calculations we want to perform. Or something like that.
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