This video from Veritasium is a nice explanation of the mathematician David Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel, which illustrates that a hotel with an infinite number of rooms can still accommodate new guests even wh
Three levels of highly available apps on Kubernetes - cloudowski.com
Beautiful but useless systemsHundreds of applications, thousands of users and millions of requests - that is often a landscape of modern IT environment. Still problems are the same.
Hand washing used to be controversial. Before Ignaz Semmelweis did his groundbreaking work in proving that disease spread when doctors didn’t wash before and after treating patients, hygiene …
The hilariously practical reason why He-Man has a giant green tiger | Boing Boing
I’m endlessly fascinated by the behind-the-scenes chaos of the 80s action-figure-cartoon pipeline. Advertising direct to kids was frowned upon — but no one would necessarily stop you from cre…
Rethinking Internet Backbone Architectures | The Telia Carrier Blog
In this blog, Johan Gustawsson, Head of Network Engineering & Architecture writes about the technology transitions over the last years that keep Telia Carrier busy building and operating the world’s #1 Internet Backbone.
5 things I learned while developing a billing system - Arnon Shimoni
Half a year ago, I joined Pleo, a FinTech startup with around 15,000 customers (we’re always hiring at Pleo!). I joined to take on and further develop the billing infrastructure. When I joined, I was actually a bit concerned about the narrowness of the new role and the new team. I mean, really… How much […]
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