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- 3.96 Million: viewers streaming the Super Bowl; 1000 kilometers: roads made of solar panels in France; 500mg: amount of chlorophyll absorbing photons in a tree;
- Quotable Quotes:
- cmyr: soundcloud actually represents a very important cultural document; there is tons of music that has been created in the past 5+ years that exists exclusively there, and it would be a tremendous cultural loss if it were to disappear.
- aback: we will continue to endure substantial cultural losses for so long as people continue to believe that content can & should be distributed and consumed for free.
- @dotemacs: - We’re moving to Java + Spring. - Why? - Cos of threads… and scaling… - OK … what exactly…? - I’m just going by what I was told.
- @asolove: Chaos Monkey People: every week, one randomly-selected person must take the whole week off regardless of their current work. Org must adapt.
- @waynejwerner: we almost started using them, but couldn't find examples of not Google / Netflix using containers in production
- Oisin Hanrahan: Scaling is a never ending process of revisiting the same challenges at different volume points and learning from each and every one so that we get better and better.
- @nickcalyx: Q: What's the difference between USA and USB? A: One connects to all your devices & accesses your data, and the other is a hardware standard
- @mathewi: In an alternate universe, Twitter never went public and is a profitable real-time news utility with an open API and multiple revenue streams
- @etherealmind: “QOS in the Internet is like equipping fish with tricycles” - Geoff Huston - I laughed so hard. (podcast out later today)
- Jef Akst: Plants may trick bacteria into attacking before the microbial population reaches a critical size, allowing the plants to successfully defend the weak invasion.
- @CapgeminiIndia: Every uber car replaces 9 personal cars, digital innovation has a wider impact than you think. - Noshir Kaka #Nasscom_ILF
- @EmperiorEric: CloudKit is fantastic, and its scaling tiers are not only amazing when free, but extremely cheap when not. But daily bandwidth scales slow.
- Palmer Luckey: If a year from now we can have the people who buy into VR [Oculus] using their headsets every day, every week, coming back to it regularly, that’s what makes VR a huge success
- Fister: all of the archives in the world could be stored in one box of seeds.
- Annisa Cinderakasih: I really like the idea walking through the park/botanical garden which actually a ‘data library’, while I can listen to the narration of its data inside just by touching it.
- @swardley: The time of war is upon us in gaming and many components of the gaming value chain are ripe for shifting from product to commodity (+utility) forms.
- @joyent: Q: "Are we at peak confusion in containers?" A: "5 more schedulers and we’re there." - @frazelledazzell from @docker at #ContainerSummit
- @capotej: scala career timeline: year 1: dope, gonna write some terse code year 2: hmm, maybe i shouldnt use every feature year 3: java 8 looks nice
- @skamille: OH: "I thought cloud native referred to engineers born after AWS launched?
- AaronLasseigne: It's [Snapchat] a video game for her. She doesn't look at the photos in the morning, she just responds to keep the chain going. It's like grinding. She has a score, tries to improve it, get trophies, new equipment (I mean filters), etc.
- @kentbye: Google will put out a Project Tango phone in 2016 with 3D depth sensors. It'll bootstrap consumer AR at mobile scale
- @pas256: Google Cloud Functions are completely different to AWS Lambda: exports.fn = function(context, data) vs exports.fn = function(event, context)
- medicine.ai: The Next Miracle Drug is an Algorithm.
- @viktorklang: "The secret to very responsive systems is to keep the utilization down." - @mjpt777 (from Queuing Theory)
- Mark Anderson: The cloud and the Internet of Things will likely provide plenty of snooping opportunities for the agency and others like it.
- @WhatTheFFacts: It would take you 10 years to view all the photos shared on Snapchat in the last hour.
- @kevinmarks: government should not be an app, but a protocol. Unauthenticated read, POST with nuance
- @noggin143: the cern openstack cloud at 155K cores has no proprietary extensions IMHO.
- @beaucronin: The VR strategy chess game is getting very serious
- @HoustonTexasVR: Blows my mind @Amazon can buy a game dev engine & release it free, no royalties just to promote uptake of its web services / cloud platform.
- Kieren McCarthy: We're going to use your toothbrush to snoop on you, says US spy boss
- Steve Ranger: In a surveillance economy, privacy represents an opportunity for profit forgone.
- sudovoodoo: Should say that we horizontally scale this [socketcluster.io] thing pretty heavily using the sc-redis module. Elasticache + ELB + 4 EC2 Instances = support for 5000+ person conferences :D
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- Netflix has completed its 7 year long odyssey of moving all their operations to the cloud. Completing the Netflix Cloud Migration. It's really a love story. Netflix has grown their streaming membership 8x from 2008 and overall viewing has grown by three orders of magnitude. To support this growth they could not have racked servers fast enough in their own datacenter. Nor could they have grown world wide to support 130 new countries. Reliability is up, approaching four nines. Costs are down, costs per streaming start ended up being a fraction of those in the datacenter. Cloud elasticity is the driver for reduced costs. It's possible to continuously optimize instance type mix and to grow and shrink their footprint near-instantaneously without the need to maintain large capacity buffers. And on their voyage they've taken us all with them, teaching everyone what it means to operate at scale in the cloud. Netflix Open Source.
- 1 billion Apple devices are in active use around the world. Interesting metric, to talk about the number of devices instead of the number of users. Apple is saying we may not be able to grow users as fast as we used to, let's count devices instead, that we can grow, and BTW, we plan on making a lot more devices to sell to a loyal customer base. Also Wall Street, that's a pretty big market to sell accessories and services into. We're not dead yet.
- Meta fatigue, there's no pill for it, but JavaScript fatigue fatigue offers tips against feeling overwhelmed: Don’t try to know everything; Wait for the critical mass; Stick to things you understand: don’t use more than 1–2 new technologies per project; Do exploratory toy projects.
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