Netflix made 11 presentations at AWS Re:Invent

AWS Re:Invent had many sessions and the folks at Netflix created a post so you could find the Netflix one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.

Yes there are eleven Netflix presentations made at AWS Re:Invent.  Here are two.  You can go to this link to see all.

Netflix Presentation Videos from AWS Re:Invent 2013

 

AWS recorded all the talks, there are hundreds of videos, so to make it easier to find the Netflix related ones, here are links to the videos.

DMG206 - Development Patterns for Iteration, Scale, Performance and Availability
Neil Hunt - Chief Product Officer



ENT203 What Enterprises Can Learn From Netflix
Yury Israilevsky - VP Cloud and Platform Engineering


Wow, Apple files a permit and media is all over its expansion in NC

Apple files a permit to expand data center capacity and the media is all over it.

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    Apple Is Once Again Expanding Its North Carolina Data Center

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    Like the previous tactical data center, plans for the new one shows banks ... All in all, Apple's North Carolina data center is a huge setup that's ...

The data center media caught it too.

 

REPORT: APPLE PLANS ANOTHER DATA CENTER IN NORTH CAROLINA

Company files for permit for a 14,000 sq ft facility in Maiden

21 February 2014 by Yevgeniy Sverdlik - DatacenterDynamics

 
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Report: Apple plans another data center in North Carolina
Apple's main Maiden, North Carolina, data center

Apple is planning to build a second mid-size data center on its property in Maiden, North Carolina, which currently has one 500,000 sq ft facility and a smaller, 21,000 sq ft one.

 

The company has filed papers for a permit with Catawba County that describes a 14,000 sq ft data center at the site, Hickory Record reported. Plans in the paperwork include a building with office and other ancillary space and a data hall cooled by 11 air conditioning units.

Om Malik Makes a Transition from GigaOm to True Ventures

Kara Swisher on re/code writes on Om Malik’s move full time to True Ventures, leaving GigaOm.  It is funny how many times people think Om’s name is Giga Om.  Going to True Ventures, Om won’t have this problem as much.  Om is different than most media in that he has made the jump to the VC community.  Reading Kara’s post reminds me of things that make Om fit in a technical community.

A sassy tech blog with class and standards and ethics and a big, big, voice?

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But Om has been much more than a disruptor. He has also been a generous and kind adviser to anyone who needed help, including to competitors; a smart and analytical writer, whose fog-horn sensibilities nearly always cut through the incessant soup of hype that blankets the Bay Area tech landscape; a terrific reporter at his core, who knows news, has a nose for news and, well, knows it.

Kara closes also making the point on Om’s name.

From Medieval Latin, omniscient means “all-knowing,” which kind of sums up Om a lot of the time.

His own name also is defined as a “mystic syllable, considered the most sacred mantra.” Perhaps that’s going to far — I know he’d think (and say) so.

So let’s just agree that it’s been a good name — a really good name — to represent tech journalism online and we’re all the better for it and owe him a debt of gratitude.

Here is True Ventures post on Om joining.

Om is known for his prescient thoughts about the tech industry, his deep understanding of markets and trends, and his fast friendships with most of the other thought leaders in our industry. He is the most loyal and thoughtful friend an entrepreneur could ever ask for, including all of us at True. Few people in Silicon Valley are as respected, and as someone who has known Om for a long time, I can say with absolute authority that few people are as kind.

That is why it is an incredible honor to announce today that Om Malik will join True as a full-time partner. He has detailed his decision on GigaOM, and we are unbelievably blessed to have him dedicate the majority of his time to True. Om personifies this firm’s love affair with technology, and we are so looking forward to having him, his big ideas and his big heart around a lot more.

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What’s Om doing?

Status Update

I have hung up my reporter’s notebook for good and retired from the news business. I have joined early stage venture capital firm, True Ventures, as a full partner of the firm.

 It is great to see people make transitions and grow.

Disclosure: I work part time for GigaOm Research and have had the pleasure of good conversations with Om.

Will Facebook's acquisition change Whatsapp's policy of not storing chat history?

I was reading Om Malik’s post on Facebook’s Irrationality of buying Whatsapp.

The irrational rationality behind Facebook’s $16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp

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The huge price tag attached to Facebook’s purchase of WhatsApp — one of the largest web deals in history — actually makes more sense than you might think at first glance.

And, one of the questions that occurred is whether Facebook will want to store the chat history from Whatsapp?  Currently the history is not stored.

WhatsApp communication between your phone and our server is fully encrypted.

We do not store your chat history on our servers. Once delivered successfully to your phone, chat messages are removed from our system.

Even though data sent through our app is encrypted, remember that if your phone or your friend's phone is being used by someone else, it may be possible for them to read your WhatsApp messages. Please be aware of who has physical access to your phone.

Cheers, 
WhatsApp Support Team

Facebook has the budget and infrastructure to store chat history.

Here is more information from Arstechnica referencing a Wired article.

On whether governments have demanded access to WhatsApp servers

"There really is no key to give," Koum says. The US National Security Agency, he insists, has no access to users' messages. "People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible. We don't know your name, your gender… We designed our system to be as anonymous as possible. We're not advertisement-driven so we don't need personal databases." This is more than a business position for Koum. "I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on," he says. "I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders. I remember hearing stories from my parents of dissidents like Andrei Sakharov, sentenced to exile because of his political views, like Solzhenitsyn, even local dissidents who got fed up with the constant bullshit. Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state—the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech. Our goal is to protect it. We have encryption between our client and our server. We don't save any messages on our servers, we don't store your chat history. They're all on your phone."

 

How Google backs up the Internet

Here is a talk from Oct 2013 on “How Google backs up tho Internet"

If you don’t have the time to watch the video here is a post based on the video.

How Google Backs Up The Internet Along With Exabytes Of Other Data

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014 AT 8:56AM

Raymond Blum leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers charged with keeping Google's data secret and keeping it safe. Of course Google would never say how much data this actually is, but from comments it seems that it is not yet a yottabyte, but is many exabytes in size. GMail alone is approaching low exabytes of data.

Mr. Blum, in the video How Google Backs Up the Internet, explained common backup strategies don’t work for Google for a very googly sounding reason: typically they scale effort with capacity. If backing up twice as much data requires twice as much stuff to do it, where stuff is time, energy, space, etc., it won’t work, it doesn’t scale.  You have to find efficiencies so that capacity can scale faster than the effort needed to support that capacity. A different plan is needed when making the jump from backing up one exabyte to backing up two exabytes. And the talk is largely about how Google makes that happen.