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Venture capital spending keeps rising. and a lot of it is coming from SoftBank https://www.recode.net/2017/10/11/16459856/softbank-biggest-...

Fastly has deployments in 17 north american cities. AWS is in 5.

They're pretty different strategies. For every massive AWS datacenter on a continent, fastly has at least 3 tiny ones -- inevitably closer to your customers, meaning lower RTT.

Establishing a connection can require several round trips, and the latency adds up. "early termination" with a point of presence near your end user makes a pretty massive difference, especially if your user isn't on the same continent. Every additional 100ms costs amazon 1% of their revenue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=273900

Add in the necessity of porting vcl for all of their customers, and the prospect of upgrading varnish is obviously pretty daunting.

I suspect they'd rather focus on their new webassembly-based configuration solution, rather than try to keep up with changes in VCL

> Ferrero... reached its goal of using only palm oil that has been certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil... Nutella’s palm oil comes mostly from Malaysia, as well as from Brazil, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, according to reports.

> Greenpeace, the environmental advocacy group, told Quartz in a statement that it opposes a boycott of products with palm oil because “a blanket boycott of this agricultural crop will not solve problems in its production.”

https://qz.com/430450/no-you-dont-have-to-boycott-nutella-fo...

When you request a page like this guardian article, all they'd have access to would be:

  * The url you requested, along with time and IP            
  * Any facebook.com/facebook.net cookies you have stored      
  * Any other headers your browser sends       
  * Metadata about the page itself that the publisher publishes via "og:" tags

How does that compare with what you meant by "obscene amount of personal data"?

Yes, the default configuration has your page include javascript from facebook.net which the browser will request on every page view

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button

In the case of this the theguardian.com page it looks like they've got a webbug as the last element of the body, which results in a request to https://www.facebook.com/tr?

Having facebook count views of your like button is probably considered a feature to publishers.

This included a slide with a hypothetical "candidate A" who had no technical experience, but great communication skills, and "candidate B" who had extensive technical experience but no "soft skills". Who do you hire for a hypothetical technical role? "Candidate A" was presented to us as the correct answer.

Nevermind the fact that our company has never historically demonstrated the ability to technically train an employee...

So, yes. Devaluing technical skill appears to be all the rage in HR these days.