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- $3000: Tesla's new 7kWh daily cycle battery.
- Quotable Quotes:
- @mamund: "Turns out there is nothing about HTTP that I like" -- Douglas Crockford
- @PeterChch: Your little unimportant site might be hacked not for your data but for your aws resources. E.g. bitcoin mining.
- @Joseph_DeSimone: I find it stunning that Google's annual R&D budget totaled $9.8 billion and the Budget for the National Science Foundation was $7.3 billion
- @jedberg: The new EC2 container service adds the missing granularity to #ec2
- Randy Shoup: “Every service at Google is either deprecated or not ready yet.” -- Google engineering proverb
- @mtnygard: Today the ratio of admins to servers in a well-behaved scalable web companies is about 1 to 10,000. @botchagalupe #craftconf
- @joshk: Data: There Are Over 9x More Private IPOs Than Actual Tech IPOs
- @nwjsmith: “Systems are not algorithms. Systems are much more complex.“ #CraftConf @skamille
- kk: “Because the center of the universe is wherever there is the least resistance to new ideas.”
- John Allspaw: Stop thinking that you’re trying to solve a troubleshooting problem; you’re not. Instead of telling me about how your software will solve problems, show me that you’re trying to build a product that is going to join my team as an awesome team member, because I’m going to think about using/buying your service in the same way that I think about hiring.
- @mpaluchowski: "Netflix is a #logging system that happens to play movies." #CraftConf
- John Wilke: Resiliency is more important than performance.
- @peakscale: The server/cattle metaphor rubs me the wrong way... all the farmers I knew and worked for named and cared about their herd.
- @aphyr: "We've managed to run 40 services in prod for three years without needing to introduce a consensus system" @skamille, #CraftConf
- @ryantomlinson: “Spotify have been using DNS for service discovery for a long time” #CraftConf
- @csanchez: Google "we start over 2 billion containers per week" containers, containers, containers! #qconlondon
- @tyler_treat: If you're using RabbitMQ, consider replacing it with Kafka. Higher throughput, better replication, replayability. Same goes for other MQs.
- @tastapod: @botchagalupe telling #CraftConf how it is! “Yelp is spinning up 8 containers a second. This is the real sh*t, man!”
- @mpaluchowski: "A static #alert threshold won't be any good next week. It must be calculated." #CraftConf
- @mtnygard: #craftconf @randyshoup “Microservices are an answer to a scaling problem, not a business problem.” So right.
- @adrianco: @mtnygard @randyshoup speed of development is the business problem that leads to Microservices.
- @b6n: the aws financials should be a wake-up call to anyone still thinking cloud isn't a game of raw scale
- @mtnygard: The “edge” used to be top-of-rack. Then the hypervisor. Now it’s the container. That’s 100x the number of IPs. — @botchagalupe #craftconf
- @idajantis: 'An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs' - nice one by @viktorklang at #CraftConf on Distributed Systems failing gracefully
- @jessitron: "You should store your data in a real database and replicate it to Elasticsearch." @aphyr #CraftConf
- A telling difference between Google and Apple: Google Now becomes a more robust platform with 70 new partner apps. Apple takes an app-centric view of the world and Google not surprisingly takes a data centric view. With Google developers feed Google data for Google to display. With Apple developers feed Apple apps for users to consume. On Apple developers push their own brand and control functionality through bundled extensions, but Google will have the perspective to really let their deep learning prowess sing. So there's a real choice.
- How appropriate that game theory is applied to cyberwarfare. Mutually Assured Destruction isn't just for nukes. Pentagon Announces New Strategy for Cyberwarfare: “Deterrence is partially a function of perception,” the new strategy says. “It works by convincing a potential adversary that it will suffer unacceptable costs if it conducts an attack on the United States, and by decreasing the likelihood that a potential adversary’s attack will succeed.
- Reducing big data using ideas from quantum theory makes it easier to interpret. So maybe QM is nature's way of making sense of the BigData that is the Universe?
- Synergy is not always BS. Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube: YouTube was burning through $2 million a month in bandwidth costs before the acquisition. What few knew at the time was that Google was a pioneer in data center technology, which allowed it to dramatically lower the costs of running YouTube.
- In a winner take all market is the cost of customer acquisition pyrrhic? Uber Burning $750 Million in a Year.
- The cloud behind the cloud. Apple details how it rebuilt Siri on Mesos: Apple’s custom Mesos scheduler is called J.A.R.V.I.S.; Apple uses J.A.R.V.I.S. as its internal platform-as-a-service; Apple’s Mesos cluster spans thousands of nodes and runs about a hundred services; Siri’s Mesos backend represents its third generation, and a move away from “traditional” infrastructure.
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