Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger:
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a part of the data.
Tech stuff aside, those numbers are staggering to me. (If SQL and UUIDs get your juices flowing, read the whole post.)
Verizon on Friday appealed the FCC’s net neutrality order, formally getting the ball rolling on the expected court battle over the controversial Internet rules.
Verizon was a vocal critic of the rules when the FCC adopted them in December, saying that the FCC does not have jurisdiction over broadband and therefore cannot regulate how Internet service providers manage the traffic that flows over their networks.
“We are deeply concerned by the FCC’s assertion of broad authority to impose potentially sweeping and unneeded regulations on broadband networks and services and on the Internet itself,” said Verizon Senior Vice President Michael Glover.
Shame on you, Verizon.
He nails why hardcore Mac users don’t like the new feature:
Remember, geeks like you and me are the minority of Mac customers.
While these guys may have too much free time, I’d totally buy the next iPhone[1. Who am I kidding? I’ll be ordering it no matter what.] if it looked like that.
Google’s Larry Page, via Claire Cain Miller at the New York Times:
I see this as our responsibility to some extent, trying to improve media. If you ask anyone about how that information’s going to be propagated, what you’re going to focus on, I think it could work a lot better than it does now.
We as an Internet community, we have a responsibility to make those things work a lot better and get people focused on what are the real issues, what should you be thinking about. And I think we as a whole are not doing a good job of that at all.
I think most people’s response[1. Well, at least people who care about such things. Most people don’t think about where news comes from, I don’t think.] to this would be something along this line:
Why should a corporation like Google control the news I see? I don’t like that.
Of course, almost all news comes from big corporations. Fox,[2. Don’t even get me started.] AOL, NBC, Gannett and countless others are all giant corporations. As such, they have — whether or not they admit it — competing interests between delivering the news and making piles and piles of cash.
If Google were to use its weight to lean the news it delivers one way or another, I wouldn’t be happy. But it wouldn’t be anything new.
The Kindle will let me have a cheap device that won’t heat up in the blistering summer sun, is light enough to hold and read one handed, won’t be affected by glare from the sun, and I won’t mind reading while standing in the pool because for 80 bucks it’s relatively replaceable.
I pre-ordered the Kindle Touch yesterday, but today, canceled that order and got the basic Kindle.
The only reason I went with the Touch was the … well, touch. But the lack of physical page-turn buttons and my lingering doubts on how good the touch might be kept bugging me.
The big potential con of going this route is the lack of a physical or touch-screen keyboard. Moving around the digital keyboard with Amazon’s d-pad is probably going to be a pain, but I don’t ever type on my wife’s 3rd-generation Kindle.
I’m happy to announce that Myke Hurley and I have started a new project together. A podcast, naturally, given Myke’s awesome gifts.
The show’s name is Ungeniused, and it isn’t a technology podcast, like you might expect.
Ungeniused is a podcast dedicated to exploring how far down the rabbit hole one can go on Wikipedia. This often means talking about things no one should know anything about.
We just launched the first episode. In it, Myke and I discuss reality TV’s history, and some simply terrible examples of what can happen when it all goes wrong.
Give it a listen, and let us know what you think. You can also hit the show up on Twitter.
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Get to it: if you don’t have a tablet, this is the best you’re going to find for the price. If you do have an iPad already, this’ll make an excellent second tablet.
Not only do I disagree with Brownlee’s headline, but this statement just makes me want to smash something.