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• 81%: AWS YOY growth; 400: hours of video uploaded to YouTube EVERY MINUTE; 9,000: # of mineable asteroids near earth; 1,400: light years to Earth's high latency backup node; 10K: in the future hard disks will be this many times faster 
• Quotable Quotes:
  • @BenedictEvans: Chinese govt: At the end of 2014 China had 112.7 billion static webpages and 77.2 billion dynamic webpages. They used 9,310,312,446,467 KB
  • Michael Franklin (AMPLab): This is always a pendulum where you swing from highly distributed to more centralized and back in. My guess is there’s going to be another swing of the pendulum, where we really need to start thinking about how do you distribute processing throughout a wide area network.
  • Sherlock Holmes: Singularity is almost invariably a clue. 
  • @jpetazzo: OH: "In any team you need a tank, a healer, a damage dealer, someone with crowd control abilities, and another who knows iptables"
  • Jeff Sussna: Ultimately, the impact of containers will reach even beyond IT, and play a part in transforming the entire nature of the enterprise. 
  • @CarlosAlimurung: Impressive.  The number of #youtube channels making six figures grew by 50%. 
  • harlowja: Overall, no the community isn't perfect, yes there are issues, yes it burns some people out, but software isn't rainbows and butterflies after all.
  • werner: BTW nobody wants eventual consistency, it is a fact of live among many trade-offs. I would rather not expose it but it comes with other advantages ...
  • @VideoInkNews: We’re focused on our top three priorities – mobile, mobile and mobile, said @YouTube CEO @SusanWojcicki #VidCon2015 #keynote
  • Ivan Pepelnjak: Use a combination of MPLS/VPN and Internet VPN, or Internet VPN with 3G backup. Use multiple access methods, so the cable-seeking backhoe doesn’t bring down all uplinks.
  • @randybias: Repeat after me: containers do little to enable application portability.  If you want portability use a PaaS.  PaaS != Containers.
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• Can't we all just get along? And by "we" I mean humans and robots. Maybe. Inside Amazon shows by example how one new utopian community is bridging the categorical divide. Forget all your skepticism and technopanic, humans and robots can really work together in a highly efficient system.


• A Brief History of Scaling LinkedIn. Not so brief actually. Lots of really good details. They of course started off with a monolith and ended up with a service oriented architecture. One of the most interesting ideas is the super block: groupings of backend services with a single access API. This allows us to have a specific team optimize the block, while keeping our call graph in check for each client.


• If you want to move at the speed of software doesn't your datacenter infrastructure have to move at the same speed? Network Break 45 from Packet Pushers talks about an open source virtual software router, CloudRouter, running the latest release of OpenDaylight's SDN controller and ONOS. The idea is to make a dead simple router you can just instantiate as needed. Greg Ferro makes the point that if you don't have to care if you are starting 100 or 1000 virtual routers it changes how you go about building infrastructure. Running a Cisco Router, and F5 load balancer, and a virtual firewall, how much will it cost to spin up virtual datacenters for 100s of developers? How long will it take? How much will it cost? How does it even work?