Hey, it's HighScalability time:

Stunning depiction of every space mission over the past 50 years. (Max Roser)

• 700 billion: Apple's valuation; 1: Number of lines of code it takes to bring down UK air traffic control; 20: how old that line of code was in years; 2: the problem was of course a never been seen before double failure; 1: atom-thin silicon transistors may mean super-fast computing; a few: how many data points it takes to identify you
• Quotable Quotes:
  • @EpicureanDeal: The Uber model is everywhere: using the internet to connect infrequent, consumers of ad hoc, spot market services with fragmented suppliers.
  • @awendt: “I’m sorry you learned about transactions and joins in college, but you’ll have to de-normalize for #microservices” – @adrianco #microxchg
  • @samnewman: @adrianco "JSON was 10x faster than XML. Protobufs 10x faster than JSON. Avro same speed as Protobufs, but half the size"
  • @RichardWarburto: Premature Optimization isn't the root of all evil: misunderstood domain models are.
  • @MichaelPisula: Says @ewolff at #microxchg: start big with your microservices, splitting is easier than joining and your architecture will be wrong anyway
  • @MJFKlewitz: "With vertical scaling the problem is you end up giving a lot of money to Larry Ellison" #greatquote @crichardson #microxchg
  • Jenny Rood: Species of ants which differ in size can coexist peacefully, but the insects will chase away similarly sized competing species.
  • Steven Levy: The nonlinear gains that Moore predicted are so mind-bending that it is no wonder that very few were able to bend their minds around it.
  • ntoshev: There seems to be a fundamental trade-off between latency and throughput, with stream processors optimizing for latency and batch processors optimizing for throughput.
  • Sam Altman: Nobody cares if you’re using an Intel Edison or a 555 to blink the LED in the prototype you show them: people care about whether you’ve made something that they want.
  • @swardley: 30-50 years from genesis to industrialisation is about the average these days
  • Alex Clemmer: 84% of a single-threaded 1KB write in Redis is spent in the kernel
  • @allspaw: Psst: while lots of folks hope for fully "autonomous" tech to solve all the world's ills, I'll just be over here getting some work done.
  • @alejandrocrosa: “The database you read from is just a cached view of the event log”
  • @viktorklang: Optimizing for latency (as in "time to serve") will also yield higher throughput. Thank you, Mr Little.
  • rakoo: using GOMAXPROCS doesn't automagically turn your program into a parallel one
  • fluidcruft: Data science manifesto: The purpose of computing is numbers.


• Is the golden age of the cheap startup over? The Rising Costs Of Scaling A Startup. In San Francisco it is. Twice as expensive in 2014 than it was in 2009. Wages have doubled. Op-ex has doubled. And thus startup round sizes have increased. People and place costs dwarf compute infrastructure cost savings.


• Just in case you are of the fashionable opinion Perl code must look like line noise, take a gander: Real measurement is hard. Nice, eh?


• Magic tricks for algorithms. This may prove helpful in your new job as Algorithm Profiler...Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled: High Confidence Predictions for Unrecognizable Images:  It is possible to produce images totally unrecognizable to human eyes that DNNs believe with near certainty are familiar objects. 


• Here's the rare Docker nocker. Many reasons why you should stop using Docker. One side: Idea good, implementation leaves something to be desired. Other side: it tastes great and is less filling. Interesting from dacjames: In general, I agree 100%. With the case of Docker, the concept of containerization is more important than the current project. Decoupling the application environment from the infrastructure environment is an immensely valuable paradigm.


• Bounty Hunter. A job title that conjures up romantic images and dreams of the never was. You can still be one in the digital age. And make some money too. 11 Essential Bug Bounty Programs of 2015. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are available. Good hunting.


• When algorithms rule the world you are just one weighting factor away from insignificance. Apple,Apps and Algorithmic Glitches. Divination used to be how we attempted to contol the future. Now we attempt to penetrate to the unknowable heart of opaque algorithms with something different...data.

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