Meetups/Infra/2024-02-20

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Discussion of mobile network design considerations. Bid-ask spreads, the justifications of consumer benefits of payment for order flow. Horror stories of organizational and software failures, ill-effects.

Introductions[edit | edit source]

  • [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]


  • Loren - background as infra engineer / devops,
  • Chai - bg software engineering, running co as CTO, not been primary focus. war stories from previous jobs.
  • Doug - coming regularly, know about code, hosting services, Working with IPv6 now for DC self-hosted servers
  • Jonathan - it, it support, at a startup, in cloud, big data, ai stuff.
  • Tony, - from Vancouver elecrician. Green energy, robotics & ai.
  • Sophia - long-time noisebridger working in corner

Lesson or Demo[edit | edit source]

Mobile network, design & perf considerations: https://aosabook.org/en/posa/secrets-of-mobile-network-performance.html Cache-evication algorithm, https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/12/15/sieve.html

AWS networking issues - self-reports issues hours later. AWS us-east-1 New York stock exchange -- landing in NJ (Seacaucus) principal-agent proglem.


Bid-ask spread. Retail, "dumb money" <<liquidity providers>> -- less risky to trade against. Less adversarial info.


AI, AGI? decompression https://generative.ink/posts/loom-interface-to-the-multiverse/


Boeing - McDonell-Dougleas merger. middle managers only from McDonell-Dougleas, changed culture


Post office, buggy software, accused of theft. Told individually they have problems. 900 people accused of fraud, 200 sent to prison. 10-20 people committed to suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036


Contractors.


Network, old favorite

War stories

the horror of physical infrastructure)

(nvidia - war stories)


( https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcspring21-s33322/


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