Hey, it's HighScalability time:

 

• 1 million: cord cutters in Q1; 500 billion: FINRA validations of stock trades every day on Lambda; 100k: messages sent per hour at Airbnb; 21.1 billion: transistors in GV100 GPU; 11,500: crashes to train a drone; 84,469: Backblaze hard drives; 8,000: questions per day asked on StackOverflow; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • Jonathan Taplin: Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956
  • Tom Goldenberg: more companies on the site [StackShare.io] use JavaScript on the back-end (6,000) than Python (4,100) or Java (3,900).
  • Andrew Shafer: The dark ages of of the relational database and the Java middleware stack paused everything for a decade. 
  • @Taytus: "We are early stage investors. Call me when you hit 1 million monthly active users"
  • @chrisjrn: "At this point I was drunk on Perl" @bradfitz #tweetsincontext #oscon
  • Bryan Cantrill: AWS is underwriting a war on big box retail. 
  • Paul Gilster: You’re reading that right — one-tenth of a milliwatt is enough to create error-free communications between the Sun and Alpha Centauri through two FOCAL antennas [gravitational lens].
  • Vadim Markovtsev: There is a productivity peak between 2 pm and 5 pm for all the languages, when the commit frequency is the highest. This is the industry’s golden time. Managers should never distract coders during this interval.
  • Patrick Tucker: The goal, one day, is a neural net that can learn instantaneously, continuously, and in real-time, by observing the brainwaves and eye movement of highly trained soldiers doing their jobs.
  • @alicegoldfuss: it is incredibly difficult to balance "don't burn out and become a statistic" with "get as far as you can fast so they can't take it away"
  • Jonathan Taplin: With the advent of YouTube and other streaming services, revenue for musicians has fallen 70%. If you had a song that had a million downloads on iTunes, you would get $900,000. On YouTube, you’d get $900.
  • David Robinson: In short, if we had to summarize the average story [after analyzing 100,000 stories] that humans tell, it would go something like Things get worse and worse until at the last minute they get better.
  • Confucius: He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem
  • Peter Thiel: competition is for losers
  • Jason McGee~ Serverless adoption is moving 10x faster than Container adoption.
  • Max Ehrenfreund: An average, workers born in 1942 earned as much or more over their careers than workers born in any year since
  • Michael Elad: To put it bluntly, your grandchild is likely to have a robot spouse. And here is the punch line: much of the technology behind this bizarre future is likely to emerge from deep learning and its descendant fields.
  • aliostad: We just did a benchmarking for a PoC on DocumentDB side-by-side Cassandra. It does the job, I have not yet seen anything revolutionary. Cassandra benchmarks seemed better.
  • AWS Lambda Engineer: When you develop a Lambda function that uses SQS, SNS, Dynamo and other stuff in the cloud.. you can’t really debug it on your local. People just need to change their mindset
  • sbuttgereit: What looks compelling about the PostgreSQL offering as compared to AWS RDS is that it looks like you get a PostgreSQL cluster rather than a single database in a shared cluster.
  • Warren Toomey: Simulated hardware is infinitely easier to obtain, configure and diagnose than real hardware.
  • Kate Kaye: The mistake companies have made, he says, is to rely too much on targeted advertising, cutting too far back on broader advertising that builds brand awareness with people outside the existing customer base and eventually leads to new sales.
  • cbanek: I've had to work on mission critical projects with 100% code coverage (or people striving for it). The real tragedy isn't mentioned though - even if you do all the work, and cover every line in a test, unless you cover 100% of your underlying dependencies, and cover all your inputs, you're still not covering all the cases.
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• Is bundling a race to the bottom for content creators? What's the future of game monetization?: the value of games seems to keep falling...The fact that we want everything free now because it costs less (not 'nothing', remember) to produce each additional unit is a fairly entitled view and, I suggest, it would lead to the destruction of the  games industry in the same way that it's gutted the music industry...The success of Spotify and Netflix's models in other industries worries me and we see a bit of a move in that direction with things like Humble Bundles...If we're not careful, we'll get to where there's no money to be made in games and only the most trite, generic, relatively low cost and mass-appealing titles (the Call of Duties and FIFAs) will be financially viable...it's worth noting that these titans are resorting to F2P to try and shore up their player numbers. Will we ever see subscription models in new games again?


• A 10,000+ phone Chinese click farm looks a lot like Facebook's mobile device testing lab. 

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