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Kath - so cool to see this is you! What a great project. Well done.

What an excellent post. I love it and learned so much.

Would you be willing to share a ballpark price for what you pay for the enclosure? And maybe ballpark how many you ordered at once? I have found getting enclosures made to be incredibly expensive -- but I have only ever done VERY low volumes (5-10).

Who do you like who does this well?

I think Pydantic is great software and so I am inclined to see if this too will be great software.

Thanks for detailing this. Learned a lot.

Apple does >1B queries per week on siri. Likely greater than 4B assuming minimal growth since 2016. I would bet >10B. I'm not saying it is equivalent to an LLM. It is getting real, serious usage. I have no dog in the fight.

fast follow ;)

Thank you for this great post.

Can you share why they migrated?

Vitess seemed to be working for them for a long time.

Wow. This is really impressive. thanks for sharing.

Thank you!

I guess it depends on what you are defining as a chip and what you are defining as "Google" -- as in if they have contractors design/build to their needs does that count.

1/ https://www.wired.com/2012/03/google-microsoft-network-gear/

2/ I believe they had a few custom chips designed for the youtube workloads that predate the TPU.

I remember in 2010 there was a building in MV that focused on custom chips.

Have you released your flashcard app?

cool! Where can I learn about how to make a passkey enabled web interface?

What a great post. Thank you!

Thank you Fnands. I appreciate it. I will have to go back to SkyFi -- I must have missed this 75cm imagery.

Great post Mark. Long time reader - really enjoy your content.

To any readers - Any thoughts on how I can get satellite imagery of Aniak Alaska at a very low cost? I've looked into the sentinel imagery and it works -- unfortunately difficult to find enough images without high cloud cover. I could work through lots of images to piece together a solution -- but even then, I'd love to get higher resolution. Thank you for any guidance!

I've seen skyfi.com which seems promising but haven't decided to purchase.

This is so fun. I'd love to integrate this into a holiday card app :)

Fan of your work, your blog and your openness. Thank you.

What makes the dev experience so good? And why is it better than google's? I ask genuinely. I've seen/used Google's... thought it was good.

Not if they sold secondaries.

Are you counting employees that joined after the 1.5B valuation?

I am sure they made money but not what was expected (exiting above 1.5B).

How are you determining par for the course liq preference of 1.0? Where does that data come from? I ask genuinely as the small sample of companies I know of personally have liq preferences greater than 1.

This is an amazing story. Thanks for posting.

Google has all the money and their phone and phoneOS are still second tier. It's not money. It's about picking a problem and focusing on it. Further, it's about picking the right problem.

Google picked "How do we save (an additional) 20B+ per year in cash payments to a competitor" and "how do we have a path to accessing the world's data ... that is on a phone." -- and then won at both.

Please Kurt!

Enjoyed using bit.io. Excited to see what Adam, Jmo and crew do at databricks.

Was easy to export my dbs from bit.io -- did so this morning.

Thanks!

What is the space laser / LIDAR for?

Well done! Its just so hard to keep costs low.

How did you manage to keep the BOM so low. Very impressed!