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Juno: 165,000mph, 1.7 billion miles, missed orbit by 10 miles. Dang buggy software.
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- $3B: damages awarded to HP from Oracle; 37%: when to stop looking through your search period; 70%: observed Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) in production datacenters for some models of SSDs;
- Quotable Quotes:
- spacerodent: After Christmas there was this huge excess capacity and that is when I first learned of the EC2 project. It was my belief EC2 came out of a need to utilize those extra Gurupa servers during the off season:)
- bcantrill: That said, I think Sun's problem was pretty simple: we thought we were a hardware company long after it should have been clear that we were a systems company. As a result, we made overpriced, underperforming (and, it kills me to say, unreliable) hardware. And because we were hardware-fixated, we did not understand the economic disruptive force of either Intel or open source until it was too late.
- @cmeik: I am not convinced the blockchain and CRDTs *work.*
- daly: Managers make decisions. Only go to management with your need for a decision and always present the options. They went to management with what was, in essence, a complaint. Worse, it was a complaint that had nothing to do with the business. Clearly they were not keeping the business uppermost in their priority queue. So management made a business decision and fixed the problem.
- @colettecello: Architect: "we should break this down into 6 microservices" Me: "you have 6 teams who hate each other?" Architect: "how did you know that?"
- Matt Stats: The differences between BSD and Linux all derive from basic philosophical differences. Once you understand those, everything else falls into place pretty neatly.
- @wattersjames: "Last year, Johnson & Johnson turned off its last mainframe"
- Allan Kelly: But in the world of software development this mindset [economies of scale] is a recipe for failure and under performance. The conflict between economies of scale thinking and diseconomies of scale working will create tension and conflict.
- Jeff G: Today, a large part of my business is migrating companies off the monolithic Java EE containers into lightweight modular containers. Yes, even the tried and true banking and financial industries are moving away from Java EE.
- collyw: "Weeks of programming can save hours of planning" is a favorite quote of mine.
- xiongchiamiov: when I see a team responsible for hundreds of microservices, it's not at all surprising when I find they're completely underwater and struggling to keep up with maintenance, much less new features.
- Robert Plomin: We're always talking about differences. The only genetics that makes a difference is that 1 percent of the 3 billion base pairs. But that is over 10 million base pairs of DNA. We're looking at these differences and asking to what extent they cause the differences that we observe.
- @jmferdegue: Micro services as a cost reduction strategy for project delivery. Marco Cullen from @OpenCredo at #micromanchester
- J.R.R. Tolkien: I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats.
- @johnregehr~ HN commenter has reached enlightenment : In both cases, after about a year, we found ourselves wishing we had not rewritten the network stack.
- @nigelbabu: OH: 9.9999% uptime is still five 9s.
- @jessfraz: "We are going to need a floppy and a shaman" @ryanhuber
- Peter Cohen: So, why the cloud? Because, the developer.
- @CompSciFact: 'The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand.' -- Douglas W. Jones
- @igrigorik: Improved font loading in WebKit: http://bit.ly/29eaxV2 - tl;dr: 3s timeout, WOFF2, unicode-range, Font Loading API. hooray!
- @danielbryantuk: "I've worked on teams with 200+. We had 3 people just to make JPA work" @myfear on scaling issues #micromanchester
- AWS Origin Story: Jassy tells of an executive retreat at Jeff Bezos’ house in 2003. It was there that the executive team conducted an exercise identifying the company’s core competencies
- @sheeshee: ".. you are charged for every 100ms your code executes and the number of times your code is triggered." the 1970ies are back. (aws lambda)
- @KentBeck: accepting mediocrity as the price of scaling misunderstands the power law distribution of payoffs.
- @cowtowncoder: that is: cost efficiency from AWS et al is for SMALL deployments, and at some point it always, invariably becomes cheaper to DIY
- Exascale Computing Research priorities: Total power requirements suggest that CPUs will not be suitable commodity processors for supercomputers in the future.
- Here's how Instagram does it. Instagram + Android: Four Years Later: At the core of this principle is the idea that the Instagram app is simply a renderer of server-provided data, much like a web browser. Almost all complex business logic happens server-side, where it is easier to fix bugs and add new features. We rely on the server to be perfect, enforced through continuous integration testing, and dispense with null-checking or data-consistency checking on the client.
- Good story on how WePay is moving from a monolith to a services based architecture on top of Kubernetes. Advantages: autoscaling, rolling updates, a pure model independent of software assigned to specific machines. WePay on Kubernetes: ‘It Changed Our Business’.
- Julia Ferraioli with a really fun explaination of Kubernetes using legos.
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