- Metastable Failure State (Facebook) — very nice story about working together to discover the cause of one of those persistently weird problems.
- Bandit — static security analysis of Python code.
- Quantum OS — Linux desktop based on Google’s Material Design. UI guidelines fascinate me: users love consistency, designers and brands hate that everything works the same.
- Inside AWS — Every day, AWS installs enough server infrastructure to host the entire Amazon e-tailing business from back in 2004, when Amazon the retailer was one-tenth its current size at $7 billion in annual revenue. “What has changed in the last year,” Hamilton asked rhetorically, and then quipped: “We have done it 365 more times.” That is another way of saying that in the past year AWS has added enough capacity to support a $2.55 trillion online retailing operation, should one ever be allowed to exist.
Four short links: 26 November 2014
Metastable Failures, Static Python Analysis, Material Desktop, and AWS Scale Numbers
tags: amazon, design, distributed systems, material design, numbers, open source, programming, Python, scale, security, UI, web