analytics for those Senior Software Developers, Team Leads, Architects, and Project Managers who're Able to Think
| Quote: | “low-end versions of the new OS should be lean enough to run on a ~$1 MCU (these days ~=4K RAM, 32K ROM)” |
| Another Quote: | “last N minutes of the life of the production program before crashing, should be replayable on my development box.” |
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| Quote: | “we’re using operating systems which were designed whopping 40-50 years from now” |
| Another Quote: | “Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating.” |
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| Quote: | “trying to optimize out a 3e-7 performance hit is very rarely worth the trouble.” |
| Another Quote: | “With 4S/4U boxes having typical MTBFs of 3–5 years, the next question we should ask ourselves, is “Hey, will we really be able to write software which crashes much more rarely than that?”” |
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| Quote: | “Each server is only as secure as its admin” |
| Another Quote: | “For cheaper servers, the difference between Windows and Linux can eat as much as 50% of the server rental price (though for those servers which are more or less optimal price-performance-wise observed difference was closer to 20-30%).” |
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| Quote: | “You don’t “make” a violin. It is barrels and benches which are “made”. And violins, just like bread, grapes, and children – are born and raised.” |
| Another Quote: | “The very first step should be to understand what exactly you’re going to achieve.” |
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| Abstract: | Sometimes it makes perfect sense to use 32-bit application on 64-bit platform. |
| Quote: | “It is obvious that for N between 13,000,000 and 21,000,000, 64-bit application works about 1000x slower.” |
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| Abstract: | “Speed of light imposes hard limits on possible latencies of high-volume RAM” |
| Quote: | “Even if each bit is implemented by single atom of silicon, 2^90-byte RAM is the largest RAM which can possibly have latencies comparable to modern DDR3 SDRAM.” |
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