Hey, it's HighScalability time: 

Obviously, cloud native is simplicity itself. (Cloud Native Landscape Project)

• $10: price for IPv4 address (and falling); 10-15%: better IPv6 network performance; 711M: Record Onliner Spambot Dump; 41.4-tesla: strongest resistive magnet; 85%: cell towers offline due to Hurricane Harvey; 1M: Facebook accounts turned off every single day; 700K: Lyft drivers; $160B: Crypto Market Cap; $1.5M: bounty for iPhone jail break; 2.93M: pirated views of Mayweather-McGregor fight; 465k: people need to update pacemaker firmware; 70,065,920: views of Taylor Swift in 2 days; 2 trillion: kafka messages per day at LinkedIn; $35 billion: saved when planes fly themselves; 990: bird species in North America; 108B: number of people who have ever lived; 500M: DuckDuckGo anonymous searches in one month; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • @asymco: The iPhone is not only the best selling product of all time but it may be the most used. 60 trillion minutes a year.
  • @Nick_Craver: Stack Overflow Questions (last 30 days): 1,280,911,699 Hits 26.92 ms Avg Render Time 11,040,996,940 SQL Queries 4,489,374,544 Redis Hits
  • @GBrayUT: Rough CDN numbers [for Stack Overflow] from bosun ~2000 hits/sec to sstatic at peak. Comes out to another 885 million hits/week, or ~3.8 billion CDN Hits/30 days
  • @msuriar: Why is loadshedding such a thing at Google? Because in 2009 we had 3 public visible Gmail outages. #SREcon
  • @phoronix: The @AMDRyzen #Threadripper 1950X managing a #Linux kernel build in about 36 seconds, not bad!
  • @cmeik: When I told Barbara Liskov that some applications didn't need serializability she gasped.
  • Dan Lyons: A century ago, factory workers went on strike to demand better conditions. Today, startup "hustlers" celebrate their own exploitation. 
  • @nigewillson: Forget 20+ Billion #IOT devices by 2020, imagine the Disruption from 1 billion drones by 2030 !  http://ab.co/2wnLXfi  #drones @thomasfrey
  • @markcallaghan: Peak write rate might be 20% better in recent MyRocks. FlushWAL might be why
  • nnfy: Threadripper is not just about speed. It is about PCIE lanes. Intel has been taking advantage of its monopoly for decades, artificially limiting PCIE lane count, among other things. This may be the start of a new era in computing, allowing GPGPUs to be used more readily, not to mention specific neural network and deep learning applications.
  • api: Most ICO projects are complete and utter vapor consisting of nothing more than a stock bootstrap web site and a "white paper" that could have been generated by a Markov chain model using crypto and decentralized systems buzzwords. A few have a bit of code online that doesn't work. Of those that have shipped most of them are unusable, and of those that are usable I am only aware of maybe one or two that are at all interesting. Of those none are very compelling and none are things I couldn't do without. There are literally no hits in this space. It's all junk, and most of it is outright scams. I'd be surprised if a single current generation coin ever actually delivers real ROI.
  • @sarahmei: 1. Software is not about rigor. It's about mapping what people want onto what machines can do. It's messy, it's chaotic, it's wonderful.
  • @QuinnyPig: #SREcon "How did you get management support for this?" @ING: "We put them into the on-call rotation." Oh my god it's brilliant.
  • @PaulDJohnston: You can never know all of AWS. So don't try.
  • retox: Only on HN would targeting 100 million devices for a preview be seen as small fry.
  • Ann Mutschler: the retina’s 1 million or so ganglion cells are composed of about 20 distinct types. Each plays a slightly different role in transmitting the perception of shape, color, depth, motion and other visual features to the brain.
  • Stack Overflow: Python and R are associated with a country’s income. Python is visited about twice as often in high-income countries as in the rest of the world, and R about three times as much.
  • Itai Gurari: Human: What is the purpose of existence? Machine: to find out what happens when we get to the planet earth
  • @CodeWisdom: "A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing." - Alan Perlis
  • Team Shellphish: Kubernetes (kubernetes.io) - The distribution of docker containers across our cluster, and the load-balancing and failover of resources, was handled by kubernetes. In our final setup, the Mechanical Phish was so resilient that it could probably continue to function in some form even if the rack was hit with a shotgun blast.
  • Jeff Dorsch: What is clear, given the focus of presentations, is that the bleeding edge of computing has shifted significantly in the past 12 months. While performance and power are still critical elements, the primary concern is no longer how to cram more transistors on a piece of silicon or how to put multiple chips together. It is now much more geared toward new architectures that can bridge the digital and physical worlds.
  • Karen Stabiner: “At least once a week, I get something about a new start-up with a new gadget that’s going to make our lives so much better,” said Sisha Ortuzar, Mr. Colicchio’s partner at ‘Wichcraft. “They’re distractions. We just want to get back to making sandwiches.”
  • Lila MacLellan: And everything changed. Pre-Keith, Dwyer explains, “it was very clear no one took us seriously and everybody thought we were just idiots.” When “Keith” contacted collaborators, Gazin says, “they’d be like ‘Okay, bro, yeah, let’s brainstorm!’”
  • userbinator: Looks like those Seagates are still disappointingly failure-prone, while HGST remains the most reliable.
  • ISTC: network bandwidth already available today can be on par with the main memory bandwidth.
  • Michael P Frank: This idea of reversible computing goes to the very heart of thermo­dynamics and information theory, and indeed it is the only possible way within the laws of physics that we might be able to keep improving the cost and energy efficiency of general-purpose computing far into the future.
  • jcampbell1: Grammarly absolutely crushed it with Adwords on the content network. There was so much cheap inventory they were able to buy such as on dictionary sites.
  • There is a bit of a Y Combinator attitude against buying advertising to build a startup. If it ain't viral, then the product isn't good enough. 
  • jedberg: [Amazon] absolutely will not look at your data under any circumstance, even if you specifically ask them to. Multiple times I was trying to troubleshoot an issue and asked them to "just log into the database" and they said they have very strict policies against that. There is no way they have any of Target's data.
  • @benthompson: The fundamental failing in discipline after discipline is the overvaluing of what can be measured, and the dismissal of what can not.
  • dmitrygr: I read the paper. Still not sure how this [Mercury Protocol: Communication Platform Built on the Ethereum Blockchain] solves anything besides transferring wealth from the gullible to the authors:
  • @Nick_Craver: Code review just now: a errant boolean check in our Master.cshtml can cost upwards of 100 million hits to redis a day. Crazy to think about.
  • moxious: First, the idea of running a distributed ledger to keep track of burger points. This is the tech equivalent of using a bazooka to address an ant problem.
    • mcgarnagle: Say what you will, at least the whoppercoins are backed by something that has survived the test of time, the whopper.
  • contingencies: For financial transaction services I can recommend sharding first by customer, then by ledger. As a result, instead of enforcing double-entry book-keeping standards within a single database, do it at an application-specific middleware server layer to enforce only the guarantees you need.
  • @stevesi: AR by itself isn't a platform but it is precisely the kind of platform feature that makes cross-platform impossible.
  • Camillo Bruni: Changing the property or element type typically causes V8 to create a different HiddenClass which can lead to type pollution which prevents V8 from generating optimal code
  • redwood: I lived in a country where everyone has a power generator in their building. Let's just say the quality of life was significantly lower. This cloud shift is like an unstoppable tidal wave. I'm always surprised when I hear people with your argument [that the cloud is not a utility]
  • Tim Harford: It’s not simply that Blade Runner fumbled its futurism by failing to anticipate the smartphone. That’s a forgivable slip, and Blade Runner is hardly the only film to make it. It’s that, when asked to think about how new inventions might shape the future, our imaginations tend to leap to technologies that are sophisticated beyond comprehension.
  • @krishnan: For Google, Kubernetes is just an enterprise trojan horse to onboard customers to their cloud 
  • @roboYeti: Started playing with KSQL. Joining tables with streams from my Kafka topics -no problem. @jaykreps it's awesome piece of Engineering. Thanks
  • Tom Griffiths: This is a moment where we are starting to recognize that we're going to need to interact with systems that, at least in restricted domains, are going to be smarter than us. Thinking about how to design those interfaces between humans and machines in ways that make it possible for us to interact with those systems in a way that allows us to function effectively is an important research challenge, and a significant social challenge.
  • mrmrcoleman: At a previous company we had a 'farm' of test phones that we used for testing new versions of software. A large number of those test were 'stress testing' which would probably be analogous to the sort of load you would have it they were to be treated as a 'datacenter'. Based on that I'm pretty sure that the biggest issue with managing the cluster would be the extremely high failure rate. That's not to say that this won't work because I haven't done the maths, but it kid a unique challenge.
  • Michael Mullany: What I take away from my analysis of these Hype Cycles is not just how difficult it is to make predictions, and how much wasted effort goes into technologies that doesn't tend to work, but also how exciting and wondrous is the progress that we've made in technology. The labor of the last two decades has given rise to an Age of Wonders

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