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https://i.imgur.com/5ZwpT7z.png Venture capital spending keeps rising. and a lot of it is coming from SoftBank https://www.recode.net/2017/10/11/16459856/softbank-biggest-...

Fastly also has more "points of presence" than AWS/GCP Fastly has deployments in 17 north american cities. AWS is in 5. They're pretty different strategies. For every massive AWS d…

https://hpbn.co/transport-layer-security-tls/#leverage-early... Establishing a connection can require several round trips, and the latency adds up. "early termination" with a point…

suffice it to say: a bunch of AWS features were essentially developed for the benefit of netflix. So, while it entails some risk, ultimately, yes: it's not uncommon for a handful o…

And their biggest enterprise customers are paying fastly at least 6 figures annually

Yeah they run a fork of varnish 2 with inline C disabled, and a number of custom extensions (surrogate keys, tables/dictionaries, etc.) -- as well as likely customizations to suppo…

For what it's worth... > Ferrero... reached its goal of using only palm oil that has been certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil... Nutella’s palm oil comes mostly fro…

> I'd really like to know everything FB tracks on those like buttons, it's probably an obscene amount of personal data. When you request a page like this guardian article, all they…

> Like buttons are partially served by Facebook Yes, the default configuration has your page include javascript from facebook.net which the browser will request on every page view …

Our company recently ran most of us through interview/hiring training. One of the core messages of this training was "hire for soft skills; technical skills can be trained" This in…