The Weekly Weird - 2014-08-18
- Any story involving bitcoin is going to start off weird, adding BGP hijacking is just cheating.
- If you thought that was weird, did you know that 'lorem ipsum' translates to 'China'?
- Google/Facebook/Amazon's warehouse-sized computers are more similar to the one under your desk than you think.
- Speaking of Google, there's a startlingly in-depth article on what they mean when they say SRE, how they structure groups and tasks, metrics, error budgets, lots of juicy stuff: What is Site Reliability Engineering.
- You could do worse than reading Dan Geer (of totally-not-the-CIA In-Q-Tel fame)'s "picayune, tendentious, academic perfectionist posturing" on the "internet of things". (there's some overlap with his BlackHat keynote if you've read that)
- How about a whole book about software optimization?
- And a piece on formal methods in Amazon's AWS.