Hey, it's HighScalability time:

Networks are everywhere, they can even help reveal disease connections.

• trillions: number of photons constantly hitting your eyes; $19 billion: Snapchat valuation;  8.5K: average number of questions asked on Stack Overflow per day
• Quotable Quotes:
  • @BenedictEvans: End of 2014: 3.75-4bn mobiles ~1.5bn PCs  7-800m consumer PCs 1.2-1.3bn closed Android 4-500m open Android 650-675m iOS 80m Macs, ~75m Linux
  • @JeremiahLee: “Humans only use 10% of their internet.” —@nvcexploder #NodeSummit
  • beguiledfoil: Javavu - The feeling experienced when you see new languages make the same mistakes Java made 20 years ago and momentarily mistake said language for Java.
  • @ewolff: If Conway's Law is so important - are #Microservices more an organizational approach than an architecture?
  • @KentLangley: "Apache Spark Continues to Spread Beyond Hadoop." I would say supplant. 
  • Database Soup: An in-memory database is one which lacks the capability of spilling to disk.
  • Matthew Dillon: 1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal.
  • @gwenshap: Except there is one writer and many readers - so schema and validation must be done on ingest. Anywhere else is just shifting responsibility
  • @jaykreps: Startup style of engineering (fail fast & iterate) doesn't work for every domain, esp. databases & financial systems
  • Taulant Ramabaja: Decentralization is not a goal in and of itself, it is a strategy
  • Eli Reisman: Etsy runs more Hadoop jobs by 7am than most companies do all day.
  • Dormando: We're [memcached] not sponsored like redis is. I've only ever lost money on this venture.
  • The Trust Engineers: There are more Facebook users than Catholics.


• Exponent...The new integration is hardware + software + services. Not services like disk storage, but services  like HomeKit, HealthKit, Siri, Car Play, Apple Pay. Services that touch every part of our lives. Apple doesn't build cars, stores, or information services, it wraps them with an Apple layer that provides the customer with an integrated experience while taking full advantage of modularity. Modularity wrapped with integration. Owning the hardware is a better profit model than sercvices in the cloud.


• Quite a response to You Don't Like Google's Go Because You Are Small on reddit. A vigorous 500+ comments were written. Golang isn't perfect. How disappointing, so many things are.


• After making Linux work well on multiple cores that next bump in performance comes from Improving Linux networking performance. It's a hard job. For a 100Gb adapter on 3GHz CPU there are only about 200 CPU cycles to process each packet. Good break down of time budgets for for various instructions. The approach is improved batching at multiple layers of the stack and better memory management, which leads directly into Toward a more efficient slab allocator.


• The process behind creating a Google Doodle for Alessandro Volta’s 270th Birthday reminds me a lot of the process of making old style illustrations as described in Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline. The idea is to encode symbolically as much of the important information as possible in a single diagram. The coded icon of a tiny skull could mean, for example, a king died while on the throne. A single flame could stand for the fall of man. This art is not completely lost with today's need to convey a lot of information on small screens. This sort of compression has advantages: Strass believed that a graphic representation of history held manifold advantages over a textual one: it revealed order, scale, and synchronism simply and without the trouble of memorization and calculation.