Idea and presentation by Thibault Weintraub at while42 Singapore (11/7/17). Compendium of diverse insightful or surprising Tech quotes. Expect your geeky audience to react, comment troll and share their related experiences :)

1. Quotables
Quotes

2. If debugging is the process of
removing errors from a design,
then
designing must be the process of
putting errors into a design!

3. 2016 GDC Diablo talk: let's switch from
turn-based to real-time
2017 GDC Civilization talk: let's switch
from real-time to turn-based

5. Encrypted traffic has a fingerprint, enough
to distinguish among 200 Netflix vids
with 99.5% accuracy
in < 2.5 mins

6. 25%
Internet traffic generated by Google

7. At peak Netflix is responsible over
37% of Internet traffic

8. 10^15synapses activated per
second in human brain
2/3rds
fail

9. Our DNA sequencers produce more than
20 Terabytes of genomic data per day
and they run 365 days a year

10. 50 billion
of your cells replaced each day
2 million
new red blood cells per second

11. First you learn the value of abstraction
Then you learn the cost of abstraction
Then you are ready to engineer

12. Don't explain code quality to execs
Explain high cost of change
Explain slowing down of innovation
Explain longer cycle times

13. The point of Amazon isn't to offer a
consumer the lowest price possible
It's to offer the lowest price possible given
the convenience that Amazon offers

14. Async is not about
performance
It is about scalability

15. There is no such thing as
a stateless architecture
It's just someone else's problem

16. Hours of video served per day
Facebook: 100 million
Netflix: 116 million
YouTube: 1 billion

17. Everybody wants to write reusable code
Nobody wants to reuse
anyone else's code

18. Apple R&D budget
$10 billion
NASA science budget
$5 billion

19. SpaceX, $12 billion valuation
Launches 70m rockets into space and
lands them safely
Snapchat, $20 billion valuation
Rainbow Filters

20. 1997: Let’s make a website!
fires up vi
2007: Let’s make a website!
downloads jQuery, fires up vi
2017: Let’s make a website!
[very long list of tech]

21. 18mins
Latency to Mars

22. CAP theorem
It's impossible for a distributed computer system to
simultaneously provide more than 2 out of 3 of the
following guarantees
Consistency. Availability. Partition tolerance

23. There are only 2 hard problems in
distributed systems
1. Guaranteed order of messages
2. Exactly-once delivery

24. If you can’t build a well-
structured monolith,
what makes you think
microservices is the answer?

25. Microservices without asynchronous
messaging is actually a monolith
with really slow and error prone
method invocation

26. There is no Internet of Things.
There are only many unpatched,
vulnerable small computers on the
Internet

27. 98s
Before camera infected
with malware

28. Let's Encrypt now the 3rd
largest CA, after Comodo and
Symantec, comprising over 13%
of the SSL cert market share

29. $2.91M cost of running
Let's Encrypt

30. 8,000
Questions per day asked
on StackOverflow

31. 66%
loss of installs when apps
> 100MB

32. A single photon carries
10 Bits of Information!

33. 10 years ago, backends were monolithic
services and frontends many pages
Now frontends are monolithic pages and
backends many services

34. AWS Lambda, you are charged for every
100ms your code executes and the
number of times your code is triggered.
The 1970ies are back

35. 8,000 bugs
found in pacemaker codes,
leaving them vulnerable to hackers

36. 3%
Global electricity supply consumed
by data centers

37. Hardware tries so hard
to make software fast
Software tries so hard
to make hardware slow