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I programmed a thing. It’s called Probot. Probot is a quick and easy way to get high quality answers to your accounting and tax questions. Probot will find a real live expert to answer your question and handle all the details. You can get your questions answered over Facebook
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Who's Hiring? * GoCardless is building the payments network for the internet. We’re looking for DevOps Engineers to help scale our infrastructure so that the thousands of businesses using our service across Europe can take payments. You will be part of a small team that sets the direction
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Darknet is 4x more resilient than the Internet. An apt metaphor? (URV) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * > 5 9s: Spanner availability; 200MB: random access from DNA storage; 215 Pbytes/gram: DNA storage; 287,024: Google
serverless
This is a guest repost by Ken Fromm, a 3x tech co-founder — Vivid Studios, Loomia, and Iron.io. Here's Part 1 and 2 and 3. This post is the last of a four-part series of that will dive into developing applications in a serverless way. These insights are
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Only 235 trillion miles away. Engage. (NASA) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * $5 billion: Netflix spend on new content; $1 billion: Netflix spend on tech; 10%: bounced BBC users for every additional second page load; $3.
microservices
This is a guest repost by Flynn at datawireio on Envoy, a Layer 7 communications bus, used throughout Lyft's service-oriented architecture. Using microservices to solve real-world problems always involves more than simply writing the code. You need to test your services. You need to figure out how to
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Who's Hiring? * GoCardless is building the payments network for the internet. We’re looking for DevOps Engineers to help scale our infrastructure so that the thousands of businesses using our service across Europe can take payments. You will be part of a small team that sets the direction
serverless
You can’t pick a technical direction without considering the business implications. Mat Ellis, Founder/CEO of Cloudability, in a recent CloudCast episode, makes the business case for Serverless. The argument goes something like: Enterprises know they can’t run services cheaper than Amazon. Even if the cost is 2x
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Great example of Latency As A Pseudo-Permanent Network Partition. A slide effectively cleaved Santa Cruz from the North Bay by slowing traffic to a crawl. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 40 TFLOPS: on Lambda; 7: new
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Gorgeous satellite images of a thawing Greenland (NASA). If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. Sorry for the delay, can't write while driving. * 1 cubic millimeter: computer with deep-Learning; 1,600: data on nearby stars; 40M:
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Who's Hiring? * GoCardless is building the payments network for the internet. We’re looking for DevOps Engineers to help scale our infrastructure so that the thousands of businesses using our service across Europe can take payments. You will be part of a small team that sets the direction
serverless
This is a guest repost by Ken Fromm, a 3x tech co-founder — Vivid Studios, Loomia, and Iron.io. Here's Part 1 and 2. This post is the third of a four-part series of that will dive into developing applications in a serverless way. These insights are derived from