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Tech is transforming how food is being grown. Lots of opportunity for local nerdy production. Greenhouses even look like dartacenters! (This Tiny Country Feeds the World)

• 320 trillion: ops/second in Nvidia driverless-car computer; .25%: Lambda invocations impacted by cold starts; $30,000: monthly take hijacking computers to mine cryptocurrency; 400 gbps: Ethernet standard to be ratified this year; 2.1 million: MySQL 8.0 query/second; 100,000: Kiva robots owned by Amazon; 50,000: greenhouses in Egypt's new farm city; 100 petabytes: new hard drives ordered by Backblaze; 20 million: max Bitcoin users per month; 662 million: unused vacation days in US; 92 billion: Pornhub views per year; 1,000: new Facebook hires to review ads; 12 milion: Tinder matches per day; $1 billion: Google training grants; 


• Quotable Quotes: 
  • @toddmotto: Space X sends a rocket up into space. Lands back on its feet back on earth 7minutes later. I can't even run an npm install in that time.
  • nappy-doo: Years ago, I started at Google, and was in Charlie's cafe, eating alone. I'm sitting there, and up walks Ken Thompson. He sits down, introduces himself as Ken, and asks me what I work on. We sat there for a good 40 minutes just chatting. One of my coolest memories of working at Google was that time. He was so down to earth, never bothered to talk up about who he was (even though I knew). I really appreciated that.
  • @asymco: The popularity of iPhone with US teens at all-time high. Android is at 13% and flat. Implies Apple taking share from non-consumption.
  • @brianleroux: “We have leapfrogged containers which are a disaster for security”—@marknca on serverless #ServerlessConf
  • batmansmk: In every way, [Tensorflow] reminds me of Angular.io project. A failed promise to be true multi-language, failing to use the expressiveness of python, with a super large API that tries to do things we didn't ask it to do and a lack of a general sounding architecture.
  • @bodil: Fun fact: the Erlang runtime is implemented in C, which is an untrue computer language.
  • @Werner: There is no compression algorithm for experience.
  • @jaksprats: Ramcloud: JS faster than C running untrusted code due to sand boxing overheads … ... Cloudflare workers nailed it :)
  • sig: It is amazing to think that only a few years ago you could take an old laptop, download a miner, stick it in a closet and it would spit out something now worth a quarter of a million dollars every few days. There are a lot of problems with Bitcoin. If you look at my comment history you will see I am pretty down on it for all sort of reasons I won't go into at the moment. However sometimes you just have to take a step back and admire how crazy impressive it is that Bitcoin has reached this point.
  • Linda Nichols~ How can you go serverless without vendor lock-in? Linda proposes two possibilities: containers multi-provider frameworks
  • @DivineOps: I don't think anyone can *afford* inventory. It's just that if everyone is moving slow, you can get away with moving slow
  • mrb: The bug behind BIP 50 caused a fork, however the bugfix wasn't a hard-fork. By definition a hard-fork is a fork that require all Bitcoin nodes to be updated. In the case of that bugfix only some nodes had to be updated (the ones run by miners making up a majority of the hash power) then the rest of the non-updated nodes automatically reorg'd to the right chain, the one with the most work.
  • @datawireio: 100+ Million members. 100s of #microservices. Hundreds of thousands of instances. <10 Core SREs.
  • @rbranson: ... but single-rack systems are an increasingly rare situation, won’t practically exist in 10 years.
  • @ryan_sb: Not that it's always right to follow Google/FB/Twitter, but note that *all* of them have kept monorepos through massive growth
  • Bob Frankston: I hate the word coding; it’s like calling writing, typing.
  • cletus: People also overestimate their needs. They rush to create Hadoop clusters and distributed NoSQL solutions because, you know, relational DBs can't keep up with their "Big Data" (which means, millions of rows) when in fact you can dump billions of rows into a single MySQL instance.
  • Bob Frankston: Algorithms are the new bureaucracy
  • Thomas Ryan: Coffeelake is a good chip and a clear improvement over both Skylake-X and Kabylake. It’s not a massive leap, but it’s a generation of products that appears to be solidly better than the last. It has extend Intel’s lead in the areas where they were beating AMD and largely closed the gaps in the areas that they weren’t.
  • @alexlovelltroy: Oooh. Describing serverless microservices as state machines simplifies defining microservice boundaries. #ServerlessConf
  • kevin42: I used a GCE to test some image processing software I wrote a while ago (it runs on a very large dataset). I configured a 64 core machine with 128gb of memory. It ran perfectly, although it cost about $200 to run the test for a day. Sure, it wasn't the highest performance per CPU, but I didn't have to buy the bare metal, I can scale up the number of cores if need be, and I can fire one up whenever I want one.
  • godzillabrennus: I’ve been a [Backblaze] customer for years and recently had a catastrophic failure of a computer and it’s direct attached backup drive. I have spent the last four days waiting for backblaze to create a restore a backup for a computer on and last I checked it was at 9%.
  • hashtagframework: I wonder if the author realizes that the Airbus A380 is itself an IT project with 120 million lines of code, and 330 miles worth of 100,000 individual wires that perform 1,150 different tasks. IT gets no credit... the wings are doing all the work.
  • @troyhunt: 23 hours and 42 minutes from initial private disclosure to @disqus to public notification and impacted accounts proactively protected
  • @bglick: 2 chained functions with 90% performance guarantees have an 81% performance guarantee. Chain 7 and you're < 50%. #Serverlessconf
  • @faunadb: We're moving from a product stack to more utility based architectures/practices (aka #serverless) whether you like it or not, so get on board. "It's not a question of if, but when." @swardley #serverlessconf 
  • @FrankPasquale: “Software problems accounted for nearly 15% of US car recalls in 2015, up from less than 5% in 2011"
  • @jessitron: Octopuses do distributed decisionmaking. a tentacle can see and decide what color to be, locally.
  • @faunadb: "When you're on the cutting edge of the cutting edge of a new technology, you have to realize there's a very long tail of adoption in a large organization" @marknca #serverlessconf
  • @Joab_Jackson: CQRS (Command/Query Responsibility Seperation): Fancy name for separating reads & writes into seperate channels @ben11kehoe #ServerlessConf
  • @EconCharlesRead: 40% of Europe’s domestic freight goes by sea, but just 2% does in America due to protectionist laws from 1920
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