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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Everything starts with Doug Engelbart — Jane Metcalfe. It was the very first time (1968) the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time video conferencing. — Doug Engelbart (Valley of Genius). ARPA funded the demo
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Startup opportunity? Space Garbage Collection Service. 18,000+ known Near-Earth Objects. (NASA) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book
Google has released a new book: The Site Reliability Workbook — Practical Ways to Implement SRE. It's the second book in their SRE series. How is it different than the previous Site Reliability Engineering book? David Rensin, a SRE at Google, says: It's a whole new book.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: World History Timeline from 3000BC to 2000AD. Yet we still program with text—in files (Schofield and Sims) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Steve Blank tells the Secret History of Silicon Valley. What a long, strange trip it is. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking
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Who's Hiring? * Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform. Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we'
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Could RAINB (Redundant Array of Independent Neanderthal ‘minibrains’) replace TPUs as the future AI core? Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for
The Westworld season finale made an interesting claim: humans are so simple and predictable they can be encoded by a 10,247-line algorithm. Small enough to fit in the pages of a thin virtual book. Perhaps my brain was already driven into a meta-fugal state by a torturous, Escher-like, time
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Rockets. They're big. You won't believe how really really big they are. (Corridor Crew) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4th of July may never be the same. China creates stunning non-polluting drone swarm firework displays. Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). (TicToc) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me
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consistent hashing
This is a guest post by Srushtika Neelakantam, Developer Advovate for Ably Realtime, a realtime data delivery platform. You can view the original article—How to implement consistent hashing efficiently—on Ably's blog. Ably’s realtime platform is distributed across more than 14 physical data centres and 100s