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- Far UVC lights (200 to ~222nm) such as Ushio's Care222 tech. This light destroys pathogens quickly while not seeming to damage human skin or eyes. - FPGAs. I'm no computer engineer, but it seems like this tech is going to soon drastically increase our compute. - Augur, among other prediction platforms. Beliefs will pay rent. - Web Assembly, as noted elsewhere. One use case I haven't read yet here is distributed com…
NVME over Fabric. Only started to become available last year in AWS' more expensive instance types. But hoping it will become more widespread. Benchmarks with Spark result in real world performance improvements of 2-3x and SSDs will be much faster with PCIe4.0.
The m5 instance family was announced in 2017, IIRC.
Hoping it trickles down for us normal people.
- Far UVC lights (200 to ~222nm) such as Ushio's Care222 tech. This light destroys pathogens quickly while not seeming to damage human skin or eyes. - FPGAs. I'm no computer engineer, but it seems like this tech is going to soon drastically increase our compute. - Augur, among other prediction platforms. Beliefs will pay rent. - Web Assembly, as noted elsewhere. One use case I haven't read yet here is distributed com…
Materialize https://materialize.io/ Incremental update/materialization of database views with joins and aggregates is super interesting. It enables listening to data changes, not just on a row level, but on a view level. It's an approach that may completely solve the problem of cache invalidation of relational data. Imagine a memcache server, except it now also guaranties consistency. In addition, being able to liste…
Very similiar to https://www.datomic.com/
Web Assembly It's interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet. It's an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on. It looks like it's going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web…
Web Assembly is one of the more misunderstood technologies in terms of it's real, practical application.
At its core, it crunches numbers, in limited memory space. So this can provide some 'performance enhancements' possibly for running some kinds of algorithms. It means you can also write those in C/C++, or port them. Autodesk does this for some online viewers. This is actually a surprisingly narrow area of application and it still comes with a lot of complexity.
WA is a black box with no access to anything and how useful really is that?
Most of an app is drawing 'stuff' on the screen, storage, networking, user event management, fonts, image, videos - that's literally what apps are. The notion of adding 'black box for calculating stuff more quickly' is a major afterthought.
At the end of the day, JS keeps improving quite a lot and does pretty well, it might make more sense to have a variation of this that can be even more optimized than building something ground up.
WASI - the standard WA interface is a neat project, but I feel it may come along with some serious security headaches. Once you 'break out of the black box' ... well ... it's no longer a 'black box'.
WA will be a perennially interesting technology and maybe the best example of something that looks obviously useful but in reality isn't really. WA actually serves as a really great Product Manager's instructional example to articulate 'what things actually create value and why'.
It will be interesting to see how far we get with WASI.
Web or high-level stuff: deno, Svelte, Vue, Webassembly, WebGPU, Flutter.
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A while back I installed ServerPilot which automatically sets up Nginx/Apache/PHP/MySQL for you. It also handles security updates. This made those $5 VPS' so much more appealing [1] as I could install lots of small Node.js apps on a single server, and avoid managed hosting providers who seem to prefer charging per app instance. Anyway ServerPilot then scrapped their free plan so I've been looking for an alternative.…
Dokku is an excellent option for this sort of thing, and manages subdomains for you. http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/
Web Assembly It's interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet. It's an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on. It looks like it's going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web…
Cautionary tale: we’ve been here before with JVM CPUs like Jazelle. They didn’t take over the world.
- Far UVC lights (200 to ~222nm) such as Ushio's Care222 tech. This light destroys pathogens quickly while not seeming to damage human skin or eyes. - FPGAs. I'm no computer engineer, but it seems like this tech is going to soon drastically increase our compute. - Augur, among other prediction platforms. Beliefs will pay rent. - Web Assembly, as noted elsewhere. One use case I haven't read yet here is distributed com…
That said, they are very cool! And learning to create FPGA designs teaches you a lot about how processors and other low level stuff works.