Reading-Summary 2019-03

10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2019, by Bill Gates

Take a look at what Mr. Gates thinks are the greatest technology breakthroughs right now. The list might surprise you.

What happens when you click Play button on Netflix

How Netflix leverages AWS technologies to build world-scale, highly-availbile, fault-tolerant distributed video streaming system. ​

Lyft Case Study - Amazon Web Services

Lyft architecture evolution on AWS. ​

Compounding Knowledge

From Farnam Street – an interesting blog site I found recently.

Also on Farnam Street and its “mental models”: The Mental Model Fallacy. TL;DR: The so-called “mental models” from Farnam Street is not of much value when it’s from non-practitioners. And to learn businees, like basketball, swimming, etc., you’ll need to actually practice to learn the intricate knowledge that are not easily translated into writings.

Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second

Unfortunately I didn’t have time to finish reading this paper. But it’s good to learn the concept of branchless algorithms to fill the CPU pipeline and achieve amazing performance.