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It’s kind of sad that all this engineering effort was spent to essentially make the internet a worse place for everyone and waste users’ time and attention. Imagine if a crime syndicate would brag about their efforts to make their worldwide criminal activities more efficient.
Interested to know what Rust was missing. I built an ad exchange last year and it has been great. I have been using nightly builds, mostly for access to async/await, and it has been very fast and stable. I have had to submit a few pull requests to various projects along the way, but didn't find the ecosystem prohibitively lacking.
I am learning Clojure so I would like to know if anyone knows of the highest performant applications written in it.
Is this complete note? You didn't mention what you end up using. Is it golang or pony or F$? CoreFX mention in the end confused me more.
I spent a few cycles in media buying and later in sell-side ad tech. Please do say what you will about advertising and its effects on the web, but I will say this: it is a world of fascinating tech. As a buyer I experienced janky pacing all of the time across various platforms, because this is a HARD problem. We had to manually adjust campaigns on a daily basis to ensure pacing worked properly. It was common to stop…
For anyone else confused it's probably Google F1 and Spanner.
It’s kind of sad that all this engineering effort was spent to essentially make the internet a worse place for everyone and waste users’ time and attention. Imagine if a crime syndicate would brag about their efforts to make their worldwide criminal activities more efficient.
I'd love to read what a crime syndicate does to improve their activities. Doesn't mean I agree with them... but no doubt it's really interesting and I might learn something from it.
Also you could learn a lot about tunnel building, and tunnel detection.
This makes me curious - was it the language or the runtime characteristics?
I spent a few cycles in media buying and later in sell-side ad tech. Please do say what you will about advertising and its effects on the web, but I will say this: it is a world of fascinating tech. As a buyer I experienced janky pacing all of the time across various platforms, because this is a HARD problem. We had to manually adjust campaigns on a daily basis to ensure pacing worked properly. It was common to stop…
Suffice to say, I spent 730$ within _seconds_, so fast actually Googles systems couldn‘t even switch off fast enough to prevent 7,3x overspend, and the only thing that prevented stupid me from a five digit spend was probably choosing an unusual ad size.
Fascinating stuff indeed :)
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Everything you describe could exist as a paid service, and I suspect would be much higher quality that way.
A paid youtube? Not sure they would be worth it without the endless amounts of free content by free users. Facebook? There are plenty of sites like facebook without users. Charge for an account.. reduce the userbase, the platform loses value without the free users.
It’s kind of sad that all this engineering effort was spent to essentially make the internet a worse place for everyone and waste users’ time and attention. Imagine if a crime syndicate would brag about their efforts to make their worldwide criminal activities more efficient.
I'd love to read what a crime syndicate does to improve their activities. Doesn't mean I agree with them... but no doubt it's really interesting and I might learn something from it.