Sonic the Hedgehog, This Is Your Life
Sonic turns 20 today, and we celebrate two decades of Sega’s iconic character.
Sonic turns 20 today, and we celebrate two decades of Sega’s iconic character.
Sonic turns 20 today, and we celebrate two decades of Sega’s iconic character.
A strange source of inspiration: Belgian designer Danny Venlet’s Google Desk has a shape that was apparently inspired by the Google search window in the top right of your browser.
Venlet reportedly designed it for Italian manufacturer Babini Office, though at press time there was no mention of the product on either of their websites. And as far as we can tell, despite the desk’s name and provenance there’s been no official tie-in with Google.
Microsoft being Microsoft, there’s surely going to be talk of a competing Bing desk; perhaps theirs will somehow be shaped like a blinking cursor.
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Google: ‘At Scale, Everything Breaks’:
Urs Hölzle interviewed by ZDNet:
I think the big challenges haven’t changed that much. I’d say that it’s dealing with failure, because at scale everything breaks no matter what you do and you have to deal reasonably cleanly with that and try to hide it from the people actually using your system.
Make sure you read the whole article, especially the part about what Hölzle considers to be today’s captivating technical problems: fault tolerance, dealing with state and mutable states, using commodity hardware while dealing with rapid innovation cycles.
Original title and link: Google: ‘At Scale, Everything Breaks’ (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)