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Maybe this year's Mavericks can ride some gravitational waves? If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 3.96 Million: viewers streaming the Super Bowl; 1000 kilometers: roads made of solar panels in France; 500mg: amount of chlorophyll absorbing photons in
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This is a guest post by Rafael Neves, Head of Enterprise Architecture at ALICE, a NY-based hospitality technology startup. While the domain is Property Management, it's also a good microservices intro. In a fragmented world of hospitality systems, integration is a necessity. Your system will need to interact
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Since Parse's big announcement it looks like the release of migration guides from various alternative services has died down. The biggest surprise is the rise of Parse's own open source Parse Server. Check out its commit velocity on GitHub. It seems to be on its way
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Update: Amazon just released Lumberyard, a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS & Twitch. What’s next? Mobile is entering its comforting middle age period of development. Conversational commerce is a thing, a good thing, but is it really a great thing? What’s next may be what
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We have an early entry for the best vacation photo of the century. If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 1 billion: WhatsApp users; 3.5 billion: Facebook users in 2030; $3.5 billion: art sold online; $150 billion: China's
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Who's Hiring? * Macmillan Learning, a premier e-learning institute, is looking for VP of DevOps to manage the DevOps teams based in New York and Austin. This is a very exciting team as the company is committed to fully transitioning to the Cloud, using a DevOps approach, with focus
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Parse is not going away. It’s going to get better. Ilya Sukhar — April 25th, 2013 on the Future of Parse Parse is dead. The great diaspora has begun. The gold rush is on. There’s a huge opportunity for some to feed and grow on Parse’s 600,000
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Patreon recently snagged $30 Million in funding. It seems the model of pledging $1 for individual feature releases or code changes won't support fast enough growth. CEO Jack Conte says: We need to bring in so many people so fast. We need to keep up with hiring and
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is a trace of a Google search query. A single query might touch a couple thousand machines.If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 88: the too short life of Marvin Minsky; $18.4 billion: profit made by
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We've heard a lot about the Netflix recommendation algorithm for movies, how Amazon matches you with stuff, and Google's infamous PageRank for search. How about Tinder? It turns out Tinder has a surprisingly thoughtful recommendation system for matching people. This is from an extensive profile, Mr.
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This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes, who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things for a new load documentation startup, LoadDocs. Caching is a common approach for improving performance, yet most implementations use strictly classical techniques. In this article we will explore the modern
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Imaginary Kingdom of Aurullia. A completely computer generated fractal. Stunning and unnerving.If you like this Stuff then please consider supporting me on Patreon. * 42,000: drones from China securing the South China Sea; 1 billion: WhatsApp active users; 2⁻¹²²: odds of a