Meetups/Infra/2024-02-20
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)
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https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcspring21-s33322/
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