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Hey, it's HighScalability time: View of the total solar eclipse from a hill top near Madras Oregon, August 21, 2017. As totality approaches, dragons gorge on sun flesh; darkness cleaves the day; a chill chases away the heat; all becomes still. Contact made! Diamonds glitter; beads sparkle; shadow
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Sorry about missing last week, but my birthday won out over working: Ouch! @john_overholt: My actual life is now a science exhibit about the primitive conditions of the past. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1PB: SSD in 1U chassis; 90%: savings
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Who's Hiring? * Close.io is a ~25 person fully remote team that is profitable and building a product our customers love! We’re hiring Senior Backend Developers to join our team. Our backend tech stack currently includes Python (Flask, Gunicorn, TaskTiger), Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis running in
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Enterprises won't move to the cloud. If they do, it's tantamount to admitting your IT group sucks. That has been the common wisdom. Morningstar, an investment research provider, is moving to the cloud and they're about as enterprisey as it gets. And they don&
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hands down the best ever 25,000 year old selfie from Pech Merle cave in southern France. (The Ice Age) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 35%: US traffic is now IPV6; 10^161: decision points in
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Many moons ago, in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud, I said we still had scaling challenges ahead, that we've not yet begun to scale, that we still don't know how to scale at a planetary level. That was
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Who's Hiring? * Apple is looking for passionate VoIP engineer with a strong technical background to transform our Voice platform to SIP. It will be an amazing journey with highly skilled, fast paced, and exciting team members. Lead and implement the engineering of Voice technologies in Apple’s Contact
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Jackson Pollock painting? Cortical column? Nope, it's a 2 trillion particle cosmological simulation using 4000+ GPUs. (paper, Joachim Stadel, UZH) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1.8x: faster code on iPad MacBook Pro; 1
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CubeSats are revolutionizing space exploration because they are small, modular, and inexpensive to build and launch. On an episode of embedded.fm, Professor Jordi Puig-Suari gives a fascinating interview on the invention of the CubeSat. 195: A BUNCH OF SPUTNIKS. What struck me in the interview is how the process
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Afraid of AI? Fire ants have sticky pads so they can form rafts, build towers, cross streams, & order takeout. We can CRISPR these guys to fight Skynet. (video, video, paper) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon.
Think your startup has a Big Hairy Audacious Goal? Along with President Thomas Jefferson, John Jacob Astor conceived (in 1808), and implemented (in 1810) a plan to funnel the entire tradable wealth of the westernmost sector of the North American continent north of Mexico through his own hands. Early accounts
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: We've seen algorithms expressed in seeds. Here's an algorithm for taking birth control pills expressed as packaging. Awesome history on 99% Invisible. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 2 trillion: web requests served