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Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! See you in the New Year.

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• 33.5 billion: Pornhub visits; 122 million: miles traveled by Santa; 32,342: government requests to Apple for user data; 10x: faster helicopter design using VR instead of physical models and mockups; 4403: petabytes transferred by Pornhub; 59%: dropped leads on Google AMP; 160: streaming shows now outnumber their traditional-TV counterparts; 80%: machine learning engineers work at Google or Facebook; 25%: adults check phone immediately on waking; 164: iPhone apps made $1 million through in-app subscriptions; 750 petabytes: Backblaze storage; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • @ flight radar24: Yesterday was the busiest day of the year in the skies so far and our busiest day ever. 202,157 flights tracked! The first time we've tracked more than 200,000 flights in a single day on 
  • @swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? Me : Nothing special. 1) Enterprise data centres will continue to close. 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. 3) Serverless will rocket.
  • @odrotbohm: I’ve seen microservice based systems more deranged after 2 years than any 1,5 decades old monolith could ever have been.
  • Jason Kehe: Savings of even a few degrees Celsius can significantly extend the lifespan of electronic components; Microsoft reports that, on the ocean floor 117 feet down, its racks stay 10 degrees cooler than their land-based counterparts. Half a year after deployment, “the equipment is happy,” says Ben Cutler, the project’s manager.
  • @kellabyte: “Open source” infrastructure companies are a giant shit show right now. Whether it’s database or message queues it’s a really weird combo of licenses and features for hostage. Why? Because nobody knows how to make money. Support contracts aren’t enough.
  • Tim Bray: How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” Try some­thing more like “This has to be in Python, the data’s in Cas­san­dra, and I need the P50 down un­der a fifth of a sec­ond, ex­cept I can tol­er­ate 5-second la­ten­cy if it doesn’t hap­pen more than once an hour.” And in most main­stream ap­pli­ca­tion­s, you should be able to get there with server­less. If you plan for it. 
  • Jeremy Daly: Compared to building and maintaining your own systems, cloud computing is ridiculously inexpensive, especially when you’re starting out and haven’t achieved significant scale. Don’t waste your developers’ time trying to shave off nickels and dimes from your bill. Focus on creating more value by delivering and iterating on features faster and worry about cost optimizations later.
  • Zack Kanter: One day, complexity will grow past a breaking point and development velocity will begin to decline irreversibly, and so the ultimate job of the founder is to push that day off as long as humanly possible. The best way to do that is to keep your ball of mud to the minimum possible size— serverless is the most powerful tool ever developed to do exactly that.
  • These are the last quotes of the year. Don't be late...