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- Quotable Quotes:
- @debuggist: Chief takeaway from #velocityconf for me: failure happens so monitor for the ones that are important albeit in systems or culture & fix them
- @Carnage4Life: The real tech bubble is valuations of Google, Facebook & Twitter are inflated by app install ads from unprofitable startups
- Jay Parikh: Android has 2x as many users as iOS. However, iOS average revenue per user is 4x higher than Android.
- Joe Armstrong: We’ve made a mess. Need to reverse entropy. Quantum mechanics sets limits to ultimate speed of computation. We need Math. Abolish names and places. Build the condenser. Make low-power computers - no net environmental damaged.
- @reneritchie: iOS 8 is a beefy update. The internet is feeling the strain of millions of downloads. If it’s slow or stuttering, just give it some time.
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@vishyp: Quip is big on disconnected clients and clients as write-thru caches. Like it! Uses C++ for x-platform. @btaylor #atscale2014
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@csabacsoma: Instragram: we use Postgres for almost everything now, some Redis and Memcached #AtScale2014
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@rfberry: "To maximize throughput, we needed an integrated approach to backpressure." #AtScale2014
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@sharonw: I asked this Facebook / Instagram panel about image upload. Key changes: retry aggressively, and resize and encode on device. #AtScale2014
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Igor Zaika: Most of the developers who work on Microsoft Office are younger than the codebase.
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Chris Marra: There are about 10k different device models accessing Facebook. Designing for high-end smartphones does not cut it.
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@Carnage4Life: Apple spends $100m on a U2 album you don't want. Microsoft spends that on ads you don't like. Amazon spends it on free shipping #Marketing
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@beerops: Laziness as a multiplier: train other people to do what you can do to remove yourself as a bottleneck #velocityconf
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@xaprb: "Failure is a feature of complex systems." - #velocityconf
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@dalmaer: "Our mobile app is a write through cache (SQLite) to the source of truth (MySQL on AWS)" -- @btaylor #AtScale2014
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@herminghaus: @BenedictEvans Designed an 11.4TB patent retrieval system in 1993 with slow WORM robots. Cost $140m. Now <$1000.- at BestBuy.
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@BenedictEvans: You can't ask people to decide on a trade-off when they have experience of one side but not the other.
- Caching at Scale. There's a need to better manage caching, especially under failure conditions. Solutions are generally in the form of a proxy layer above memcached. Along these lines Box created Tron, Twitter created TwemProxy, and Facebook created a value meal in McRouter. Database people have always countered, why have a separate cache, just build a cache into the database? This hasn't worked for various reasons, mostly because a database always cares more about being a good database rather than being a good cache. Vitess wants to fix that. Vitess is an open-source system written in Go used at Youtube that: challenges the paradigm of treating caching as a separate layer by directly addressing the issues of database scalability and by modifying the handling of SQL queries.
- Talk about your Chaos Godzilla. Facebook Turned Off Entire Data Center to Test Resiliency. Before flipping that switch there must have been a little pause, perhaps thinking this wouldn't be prudent, but damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. Apparently some issues were found, but it went fairly smoothly. Hazaa for the chutzpah.
- Best LAN party ever? Researchers twist four radio beams together to achieve high data transmission speeds. The researchers reached data transmission rates of 32 gigabits per second across 2.5 meters of free space in a basement lab.
- This is an understatement. iOS 8, thoroughly reviewed. An amazing job. A big take away for me is Apple is systematically removing reasons not to buy an iPhone. Bigger phone. Check. Configurable keyboard. Check. Extensions that display in the today view and allow app cooperation. Check. Another take away is Apple is abandoning simplicity for configurability, which is embracing complexity, which is a potential experience killer.
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