Decentralized systems will continue to lose to centralized systems until there's a driver requiring decentralization to deliver a clearly superior consumer experience. Unfortunately, that may not happen for quite some time. I say unfortunately because ten years ago, even five years ago, I still believed decentralization would win.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time (out Thur-Fri, so we're going early): London Maker Faire 1851—The Great Exhibition—100,000 objects, displayed along more than 10 miles, by over 15,000 contributors. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It
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There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. If you haven't put it on your reading list, here's a tantalizing excerpt from CHAPTER 11 Managing Load by Cooper Bethea, Gráinne Sheerin, Jennifer Mace, and Ruth King with
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Who's Hiring? * NationBuilder — if you’re a systems engineer, SRE or DevOps focused developer and have been looking for a place where you can help other people while still working in tech? We can give that opportunity. Please apply here. * Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco
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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