“I think it has a huge impact,” replied Mr. Heyman. “We did fullscale college recruiting for Foursquare for the first time this year, where we were trying to recruit a large number of grads….We gave them a choice [between San Francisco and New York] and a significant portion chose New York. There’s lots to do there, so being in New York has actually been a recruiting tool, and I expect that to only increase moving forward.” — Engineers from Foursquare, OMGPOP and Facebook Make the Case for NYC as an Engineering Hotspot | Betabeat
“While it’s true that both Pinterest and Instagram are not making great advances in science and technology, that is more indicator of the easy power of today’s commodity environments rather than a sign of Silicon Valley’s lack of innovation. The numbers are so huge and the valuations are so high we naturally want some sort of fundamental technological revolution to underlie their growth. The revolution is more subtle. It really is just that easy to attain such growth these days, if you can execute on the right idea. Get used to it.” — High Scalability - High Scalability - Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB of Data
“Pay for what you don’t use. A downside of the provisioned throughput model is you pay for the throughput you have reserved, not the traffic you have actually generated. From Amazon’s perspective they are reserving the capacity so in a sense you are using the capacity, but this is the same capacity planning issue that made the elastic nature of the cloud so attractive to begin with. How do you specify the correct throughput? If you underspecify you lose customers. If you over specify you lose money. And if your traffic is at all bursty you technically would have to reserve the peak usage, which is fiscal insanity. You can adjust your throughput reservation, but you can’t do it fast enough to meet a burst, and the drop notification mechanisms are clumsy, you get an email alert and then have to do the adjustment by hand.” — High Scalability - High Scalability - DynamoDB Talk Notes and the SSD Hot S3 Cold Pattern
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“VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of you know our products deeply know that they don’t fit this well together as they need to. Some of them have multiple databases, some don’t look the same, some install differently, and what I can’t stand that is Site Recovery Manager doesn’t currently work with vCloud Director. So, what we are basically able to say is that we created and acquired companies that led to a lot of individual products that don’t work well enough together yet.” — virtualization.info | VMware CTO talks about R&D plans for the future