Episode 22: 22: I Would Not Build Underground
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2011
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin decompress after WWDC, then discuss Apple's (apparent) iCloud data center strategy, comparing it to other successful online service companies: Amazon, Google, and Facebook. John also recounts his one and only remotely significant interaction with Steve Jobs.
Links for this episode:
- Apple iCloud Azure use tested, confirmed - InfiniteApple
- Windows Azure
- What Datacenter Equipment Is Apple Using? - Stephen Foskett
- Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon's scale-out storage solution
- MapReduce - Wikipedia
- Google File System - Wikipedia
- BigTable - Wikipedia
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Wikipedia
- Open Compute Project
- Scribe (Distributed Logging Service) - Wikipedia
- Apache Thrift - Wikipedia
- HipHop for PHP - Wikipedia
- OS X Lion - Apple
- Apple Dropping the 'Mac' From 'Mac OS X'? - Daring Fireball
- WWDC 1997 Steve Jobs Closing Keynote - YouTube
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Hypercritical episode number 22. |
| 0:06.0 | This is a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple |
| 0:10.0 | and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:12.0 | You see, nothing is so perfect |
| 0:15.2 | that it can't be complained about |
| 0:17.6 | by John Syracusea. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:20.6 | We would like to say thanks to freshbooks.com and fell-tip |
| 0:24.4 | dot com makers of sound studio for making this show possible we'll tell you more |
| 0:29.4 | about them as the show goes on hey Hey John. Hey Dan. |
| 0:34.0 | So you're back from W. W. D.C. big week for you. |
| 0:37.0 | First W. W. D.C. |
| 0:39.0 | Finally have some clarity to think back on it. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm sure you've been busy writing your lion expose. I've been trying to. |
| 0:46.5 | Waiting for them to change things again. They keep changing things. |
| 0:51.0 | There was an update, what, two days ago or something. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | A bunch of stuff. |
| 0:56.0 | At this point I should just give up taking screenshots and just... |
| 0:59.0 | It's not just screenshots like adding and removing features. It's just it's tough but yeah, I'm I'm writing slowly and it's a slog and I don't know if I'm going to make it |
| 1:10.5 | Well, and you need to typically you release your write-up your big write-up your 50 to 60 page |
| 1:17.7 | document home of wisdom you usually release that that the same day that Lyon actually hits the streets, right? |
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