The Weekly Weird - 2017-12-08
- Bitcoin is making serious headway to mainstream acceptance. The CBOE will start trading futures about a week before the CME (though not everyone is thrilled) and with Nasdaq and Tokyo in hot pursuit. You might be excited for the ability to effectively short btc or you might be worried about possible legislation concerning individual ownership of private keys. Of course, Bitcoin currently uses roughly as much electricity as Ireland which is probably not sustainable. Ethereum is contemplating a switch to proof of stake instead of ocean-boiling proof of work.
- This is either awesome or awesome and useless: 3D printed non-electronic wifi interacting objects.
- How to build a high-performance modern column store?
- Some LISA '17 presentations: Queuing Theory in Practice, Scalability is Quantifiable
- Which microcontroller should you use? A comparison of 21(!) under $1 (!!) might help.
- Stupid Virtual Memory Tricks.
- An extremely biased look at the top 10 open source time series databases.
- Would you like to know how to evaluate the fallout risk after a nuclear incident? Of course you do.
- Nuclear powered aircraft? Meh. Nuclear powered drones.
- CRDTs are back in the news, piggybacking on the 'serverless' craze and a new riak-core-based distributed database.
- This has been all over the place so you've likely seen it but: TripAdvisor's #1 restaurant in London was a shed for a bit there.
- Conduit, a new rust-based service mesh for Kubernetes.
- Borderline politics but ... how often does a state Attourney General comment on Hacker News?
- Postgres HA with pacemaker is hard. When it goes wrong, fixing it is pretty difficult. Take a look at the excellent HN comments as well, especially the neat project patroni, implementing Postgres failover via etcd. And a full docker implementation.