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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: What's real these days? I was at Lascaux II, an exact replica of Lascaux. I was deeply, deeply moved. Was this an authentic experience? A question we'll ask often in VR I think. If you like this sort of Stuff
Well, not exactly Fishin', but I'll be on a month long vacation starting today. I won't be posting (much) new content, so we'll all have a break. Disappointing, I know. Please use this time for quiet contemplation and other inappropriate activities. Au revoir!
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Sport imitating tech. Cloud Computing chases down Classic Empire to win...the Preakness. (Daily News) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 42%: increase US wireless traffic since 2015; 44: age of Ethernet; $18.5m: low cost of
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Who's Hiring? * Pier 1 Imports is looking for an amazing Sr. Website Engineer to join our growing team! Our customer continues to evolve the way she prefers to shop, speak to, and engage with us at Pier 1 Imports. Driving us to innovate more ways to surprise and
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Who wouldn't want to tour the Garden of Mathematical Sciences with Plato as their guide? If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 2 billion: Android users; 1,000: cloud TPUs freely available to researchers; 11.5
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With Serverless hiring less experienced developers can work out better than hiring experienced cloud developers. That's an interesting point I haven't heard before and it was made by Paul Johnston, CTO of movivo, in The ServerlessCast #6 - Event-Driven Design Thinking. The thought process goes something
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Earth's surface is covered with accidental hidden letters. Can you find them? (ABC: The Alphabet from the Sky)If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1 million: cord cutters in Q1; 500 billion: FINRA validations of
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Who's Hiring? * Pier 1 Imports is looking for an amazing Sr. Website Engineer to join our growing team! Our customer continues to evolve the way she prefers to shop, speak to, and engage with us at Pier 1 Imports. Driving us to innovate more ways to surprise and
Data is the new currency. A phrase we’ve heard frequently in the wake of the story of Unroll.me selling user data to Uber. Two keys to that story: * Users didn’t realize their data was being sold. * Free services can be considered a sophisticated form of phishing attack.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: GPUs and CPUs run hot hot hot. See them in action with thermal imaging. (Tested)If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 25ms: SpaceX satellite latency; 17 million: tax returns received by IRS during week ending April 21;
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This is a guest repost by G Gordon Worley III, Head of Site Reliability Engineering at AdStage. When I joined AdStage in the Fall of 2013 we were already running on Heroku. It was the obvious choice: super easy to get started with, less expensive than full-sized virtual servers, and