Hey, it's HighScalability time:

Brilliant & hilarious keynote to finish the day at #yow14 (Matt)

• 1985: more Star Wars figures on the planet than US citizens; 10,000: number loops found in human DNA; terabyte on a postage stamp: RRAM is almost here; 1.2 billion datapoints per minute: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform


• James Urquhart asks an interesting question: Is AWS already “too big to fail”? What would happen if Amazon ran into a serious financial crisis?


• What do Philip K. Dick and Open Source have in common? They made lots of money for other people. Dick sometimes had to eat cat food and couldn't afford a doctor for his children, yet movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report, and Total Recall made fortunes. In Open Source this shouldn't be news: What's App Founder donates $1 million dollars to FreeBSD.


• Every project wants to capture the zeitgeist of the Skunk Works, created by Kelly Johnson, whose team created the fabled SR-71 Blackbird. Good discussion of The inventor of the SR-71's rules for project management. 


• The Network is Reliable. Not! paraphrases Bailis and Kingsbury. In particular the idea that the "Topology doesn’t change" is more of a fallacy than ever in the cloud as the topology can and does change all the time. 

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