Idea and presentation by Thibault Weintraub at while42 Singapore (11/7/17).
Compendium of diverse insightful or surprising Tech quotes.
Expect your geeky audience to react, comment troll and share their related experiences :)
9. Our DNA sequencers produce more than
20 Terabytes of genomic data per day
and they run 365 days a year
10. 50 billion
of your cells replaced each day
2 million
new red blood cells per second
11. First you learn the value of abstraction
Then you learn the cost of abstraction
Then you are ready to engineer
12. Don't explain code quality to execs
Explain high cost of change
Explain slowing down of innovation
Explain longer cycle times
13. The point of Amazon isn't to offer a
consumer the lowest price possible
It's to offer the lowest price possible given
the convenience that Amazon offers
14. Async is not about
performance
It is about scalability
15. There is no such thing as
a stateless architecture
It's just someone else's problem
16. Hours of video served per day
Facebook: 100 million
Netflix: 116 million
YouTube: 1 billion
17. Everybody wants to write reusable code
Nobody wants to reuse
anyone else's code
19. SpaceX, $12 billion valuation
Launches 70m rockets into space and
lands them safely
Snapchat, $20 billion valuation
Rainbow Filters
20. 1997: Let’s make a website!
fires up vi
2007: Let’s make a website!
downloads jQuery, fires up vi
2017: Let’s make a website!
[very long list of tech]
22. CAP theorem
It's impossible for a distributed computer system to
simultaneously provide more than 2 out of 3 of the
following guarantees
Consistency. Availability. Partition tolerance
23. There are only 2 hard problems in
distributed systems
1. Guaranteed order of messages
2. Exactly-once delivery
24. If you can’t build a well-
structured monolith,
what makes you think
microservices is the answer?