Distributed systems for fun and profit:
text that would bring together the ideas behind many of the more recent distributed systems - systems such as Amazon's Dynamo, Google's BigTable and MapReduce, Apache's Hadoop and so on.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Software in 2014
ongoing by Tim Bray · Software in 2014:
"We’re at an inflection point in the practice of constructing software. Our tools are good, our server developers are happy, but when it comes to building client-side software, we really don’t know where we’re going or how to get there."
The client-side mess · Things are bad. You have to build everything three times: Web, iOS, Android. (No Windows?)
JavaScript is horrible.
> [5, 10, 1].sort();
[ 1, 10, 5 ]
"We’re at an inflection point in the practice of constructing software. Our tools are good, our server developers are happy, but when it comes to building client-side software, we really don’t know where we’re going or how to get there."
The client-side mess · Things are bad. You have to build everything three times: Web, iOS, Android. (No Windows?)
JavaScript is horrible.
> [5, 10, 1].sort();
[ 1, 10, 5 ]
IBM: Watson Big Business?
IBM Struggles to Turn Watson Computer Into Big Business - WSJ.com: " hopes
Watson will generate $10 billion in annual revenue within 10 years,
But Watson had total revenue of less than $100 million as of late October
Watson will generate $10 billion in annual revenue within 10 years,
But Watson had total revenue of less than $100 million as of late October
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