Happy New Year!!
Ice skating at Somerset House, London
Facebook Pulls Back Curtain on 'Timeline'
Nice article by @wired that includes geeky MySQL details.
Transportation check-ins on foursquare. This is from this past Thanksgiving, but relevant again with Christmas around the corner. White represents check-ins on highways and roads (really?), orange is for trains, and blue is of course is same-day check-ins at airports. I guess no one takes Amtrak cross-country anymore.
Spotted this piece of modern art in Newcastle today.
Instagram Engineering: What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in…
Source: instagram-engineering
Spotify Technology: How Spotify Works
Spotify uses some particularly clever streaming technology to deliver all that instant music. It’s been described in an academic paper by Spotify techno-wizards Gunnar Kreitz and Fredrik Niemelä, who included some very interesting statistics and analysis of their measurements taken during one week in the early part of 2010. It’s a pretty dense technical read, but there are some fascinating stats to be gleaned amongst the computer science.
Recollect Engineering: Solving Instagram's Unshredder with Mechanical Turk and $0.50
By now you’ve probably seen the Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder and a few solutions including one written purely in Canvas and Javascript. I don’t know any company code blogs that solve other company code blogs’ engineering challenges but that sounds meta enough to be awesome, so…
Source: recollectcode
