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- 4281: # of unread articles in my HackerNews feed; 23%: of all corporate cash is held by Microsoft, Apple, Google; 400 million: number of new servers needed by 2020; ~25,740TB: storage Backblaze adds per month; 3 bits: IBM stores per memory cell; 488 million: faked comments by China per year; 90%: revenue Spotify makes fron 30% of users; 780 million: miles of Tesla driving data; 4 days: median time to binge watch a season on Netlix; $33: cost of Nike Air Max; $50 billion: amount Apple has paid out to app developers; $270 million: amount Line makes from selling stickers; 4,600: # of trees Apple will plant aorund the Spaceship; 200 million: Google photos users; $1.8 billion: Series F round for Snapchat; 3x: capacity of the roadway with driverless cars; 138%: growth in Alibaba's cloud;
- Quotable Quotes:
- @swardley: By this time next year, AMZN should be comfortably worth more than IBM + HPQ + HPE + CISCO + VMW + ORCL + NetApp + EMC combined.
- @pcalcado: The #serverless revolution, or as we call it in my hometown: "JavaScript folks finally find out about CGI"
- @kellan: Those patents you filed at Y! that would "only ever be used defensively"? Up for sale
- @mipsytipsy: oooo, the term FaaS (Functions as a Service) is WAY better than #serverless. Accurate, doesn't irritate me at all!
- Ian Eyberg: We need a new paradigm. We really need to be deploying software not the systems the software lives on. We need to be configuring software not the system that they are on. This is a new way of thinking.
- @amernetflix: 2 Million #PacketsPerSecond on a #aws public #cloudinstance.
- @antirez: /me hopes that because at Redis Conf there were already folks telling me “don’t bother too much with Docker, we are moving away”.
- @swardley: Asked "Do I not like Docker?" - I like Docker but I view containers as an important but for most, ultimately invisible subsystem ...
- @jeffjarvis: Before AMP, 51% of WaPost users returned in 7 days; after AMP that's up to 63% says David Merrell at #io16
- @HackerNewsOnion: How LinkedIn Scaled To Billions Of Unread Messages
- @nzben: 90% Domain Driven Design 10% Switch Statements
- @igrigorik: 0.3s latency improvement → £8M revenue gain for thetrainline(.com): http://bit.ly/1NiFzdP - great case study.
- @thegrugq: A monk asked Satoshi: “Why do you not sign a challenge msg?” Satoshi answered: “signing proves nothing!” The monk was englightened
- #bitkoans
- @johnrobb: Stanford: Apple could manufacture its products in the US with robotic assembly at same price as China now
- @Khanoisseur: Amazon changes prices 2.5 million times a day. Wal-Mart and Best Buy change prices 50,000 times over entire month.
- @Khanoisseur: Amazon pushes code live every 12 seconds and can test a feature on 5000 users by turning it on for just 45 seconds
- southpolesteve: I have one hard example I can share. We had a node service that was running on ec2 and cost ~$2500/mo. Moved the code directly over to lambda. Now ~$400/mo.
- Keith Chen~ The behavioural economist at UCLA said users are willing to accept surge pricing increases as high as 9.9 times the normal price of a ride if their smartphone's battery is close to dying.
- @Bill_Gross: With its always on cellular connection, every 10 hours Tesla gets a MILLION miles of additional data
- @timallenwagner: Nice example of converting batch system to real-time serverless analytics!
- @danielbryantuk: "In one study 35% of catastrophic failures were caused by what I call 'dev laziness' " @caitie #qconnewyork
- @dechampsgu~ "Improving Anything but The Bottleneck is Close to Meaningless" @ziobrando #dddx
- @heinrichhartman: "We [#SQLite] don't compete against Oracle, we compete against fopen(3)" Richard Hipp on @changelog https://changelog.com/201/ (47:00)
- @Pinboard: Any complex website is an interdependent ballet of dozens of mutually supporting services. You can’t reduce it to a word like “up” or “down”
- @kevinmarks: “The web is already decentralized,” Mr. Berners-Lee said. “The problem is the dominance of one search engine…
- CHARITY.WTF: I’ve seen what happens when application developers think they don’t have to care about the skills associated with operations engineering. When they forget that no matter how pretty the abstractions are, you’re still dealing with dusty old concepts like “persistent state” and “queries” and “unavailability” and so forth, or when they literally just think they can throw money at a service to make it go faster because that’s totally how services work.
- @beaucronin: A dollar-an-hour EC2 instance today would have been at or near the top of Top500 in the early/mid 90s
- @cloud_opinion: Is this the real ops? / Is this just devops? / Caught in a deploy / No escape from techdebt / Open your eyes / Look up to the cloud and see #serverles
- lostcolony: In context, I'm pretty sure it was just saying "Unlike computation, bandwidth, and memory size, we haven't seen much improvement in latency, and even if we focused on it, we have a very clear limit we can't get past".
- People have said a lot more Stuff. Read the full article to see what've they said.
- You know all those elaborate A/B testing and new feature testing systems built into websites so companies can gather data and learn more about how their product works in the real world? It's not just for websites. Tesla Tests Self-Driving Functions with Secret Updates to Its Customers’ Cars. It appears by deploying actual cars with real drivers Tesla has the Big Data advantage when it comes to creating self-driving cars. Though like much of the modern world it's damn spooky: Tesla can pull down data from the sensors inside its customers’ vehicles to see how people are driving and the road and traffic conditions they experience. It uses that data to test the effectiveness of new self-driving features. The company even secretly tests new autonomous software by remotely installing it on customer vehicles so it can react to real road and traffic conditions, without controlling the vehicle.
- Can you be a Libertarian and use the government as an amplification attack on an enemy? The Stunning and Expected End of Gawker.
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