I was recently wondering about the origin of Superman finding a phone booth to change in. I found one source on the origin and it was surprising.
Scaling AWS
From the web site High Scalability is a nice article on scaling a service on Amazon Web Services from one to over 11 million users. It’s based on a talk by Joel Williams from AWS.
Ultimate Amiga Talk
As an Amiga 1000 owner (I still have it) this talk was extremely well done, brought back memories, and is quite accurate.
Periodic Table Row Seven Complete
Confirmation that four new elements – those with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 – have indeed been synthesised has come from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac), completing the seventh row of the periodic table.
Block Chain for Authentication
The latest rage is all about the block chain, made popular by Bitcoin. It’s not exactly authentication but more publication of data in a sense that it becomes part of a sequential public record. From that point on, it can be looked up and verified.
Atomic Energy Toys From the 50s
Raspberry Pi Much Faster Than SPARCstation 20
A couple weeks back, I tweeted the following:
“Turns out a Raspberry Pi now is about 6× as fast as a SPARCstation 20 was 20 years ago. And a Pi 2 is more like 15× as fast.”
I was a little low in my numbers, too—they’re more like 7× and 16× to 41× as fast—since I was going from memory!
Here’s how I came up with that.
AWS Mistakes You Should Avoid
Michael Wittig writes on cloudonaut.io,
As an AWS Cloud Consultant I see many AWS accounts. During the year I collected mistakes that I saw in each account and aggregated them to provide you my best of. It turned out that the 5 most common mistakes on AWS are:
- managing infrastructure manually
- not using Auto Scaling Groups
- not analyzing metrics in CloudWatch
- ignoring Trusted Advisor
- underutilizing virtual machines
Time to Catch Up
Okay, it’s time to catch up. I haven’t posted here since November but I’ve been stuffing links away in Evernote so it’s time to empty some of those out and post them, even if they’re a few days or weeks old.
Modern C Programming
It’s been a while since I’ve written any serious C programs, but I found this post via Hacker News quite thorough.