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The other world beauty of the world's largest underground Neutrino Detector. Yes, this is a real thing.

• 170,000: depression era photos; $465m: amount lost due to a software bug; 368,778: likes in 4 hours as a reaction to Mark Zuckerberg's post on Reactions; 1.8 billion: pictures uploaded every day; 158: # of families generously volunteering to privately fund US elections.


• Quotable Quotes:
  • @PreetamJinka: I want to run a 2 TB #golang program with 100 vCPUs on an AWS X1 instance.
  • Richard Stallman: The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
  • The evolution of bottlenecks in the Big Data ecosystem: Seeing all these efforts to bypass the garbage collector, we are entitled to wonder why we use a platform whose main asset is to offer a managed memory, if it is to avoid using it?
  • James Hamilton: Services like Lambda that abstract away servers entirely make it even easier to run alternative instruction set architectures.
  • @adrianfcole: Q: Are we losing money? A: Can't answer that, but I can tell you what average CPU usage was 5ish mins ago..
  • h4waii: Because you can't buy trust through an acquisition. You build trust, you don't transfer it through a merger.
  • @mathiasverraes: TIL Ada Lovelace was not only the world's first programmer, she was also the first debugger, fixing a flaw in an algorithm by Babbage.
  • @BenedictEvans: Ways to think about scale: iOS is as big  as BMW, Mercedes, Lexus & Audi combined
  • @caitie: Really enjoyed The Martian, also began thinking about how space is the true test of any distributed system
  • Bits or Pieces?: This is the point, there are two very distinct forms of disruption. It's not all the same despite everyone treating is as such. Alas, people ignore this.
    
  • Julien CROUZET: So when you have a function or callback that’ll be called repeatedly, try to make it under 600 characters (or your tweaked value), you’ll have a quick win !
  • exelius: They're the walking dead because they pursued scale over innovation. Once they had achieved scale, they found themselves with too much momentum to innovate. So because they couldn't innovate, they built an army of consultants to hawk their wares to customers who also valued scale. 


• Will Amazon automatically win the IoT space with their recent announcement? Not so fast says Greg Ferro: AWS IoT vs Cisco Fog Computing – Cloud vs Network IoT: AWS is popular with capital poor, low ARPU and fast moving companies in the consumer market. Cisco et al is popular with high net worth conglomerates who build high value, high profit solutions that are slow moving and built on incumbent positions with known and trustable technology partners. There is a market for both types of approaches. One does not “kill” the other, nor it one better or worse, but does limit possible growth and ability to dominate the market.


• Conway's Law is being used less descriptively these days and more prescriptively. Projects are choosing the organizational structure that creates the software they want to make. From disutopia to utopia. 


• In a single day Riot chat servers can route a billion events (presences, messages, and IQ stanzas) and process millions of REST queries. Here are lots of lovely details on the League of Legends chat service architecture and how it works. It's based on Erlang  and XMPP, leveraging the OTP framework, concurrency model, and fault-tolerance semantics. For the heaviest string manipulation parts they dropped into C, which save 60% on CPU and lots of per session memory. Chat clusters are independent, but they do share a few tables that are replicated and reside in memory. Riak is used for the database. Also, JENKINS, DOCKER, PROXIES, AND COMPOSE.


• Brother, can you spare a dime so I can scale my website? That's all it took to handle 60K unique visitors on Amazon's Lambda + S3, less than a dime. No doubt the original architecture could have worked with a few tweaks, but the point here is using JAWS did work. Though a problem I've had with Lambda is the lack of the idea of a session when you have a single page app.

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