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The method basically consists of appending multiple objects to a single file, keep the information of where each object is placed in the file, and then upload one single file to s3 with many objects in it, reducing drastically the number of PUT operations needed to store a large number of objets.
The developer company educed storage costs by 70% with our new approach. You can head to their s3-batch-object-store GitHub repository (https://github.com/embrace-io/s3-batch-object-store) to check out the module and try it out.
Airbnb, Apple, Atlassian, Coinbase, eBay, Facebook, FedEx, Google, Intel, Intuit, Kayak, Okta, PayPal, Snapchat, Tesla, Zoom, Instacart
Interesting notes from the page:
1. Apple: Bessemer had the opportunity to invest in pre-IPO secondary stock in Apple at a $60M valuation. Neill Brownstein called it “outrageously expensive.”
2. Coinbase: Ethan’s pithy response would go on to earn Brian and Coinbase a spot in the Anti-Portfolio for life: “There’s really no questions you could answer that would cause me to invest!” Almost nine years later, Coinbase would go public in a direct listing valuing the leading crypto exchange at $85.8 billion – or just a mere 8,580x the price Brian had eagerly offered up!
Electronics manufacturing—the business of building mobile phones, televisions and other gadgets—is thriving in India. The value of electronics it produced rose from $37bn to $105bn (3% of gdp) between the fiscal years ending in March 2016 and March 2023 (see chart). The government wants to triple this again by fiscal 2026. Although India’s production of electronics accounts for just 3% of the global total, its share is growing faster than any other country’s
1. Don’t save up the good stuff (fancy wine, or china) for that rare occasion that will never happen; instead use them whenever you can.
2. Interview your parents while they are still alive. Keep asking questions while you record. You’ll learn amazing things. Or hire someone to make their story into an oral history, or documentary, or book. This will be a tremendous gift to them and to your family.
3. When shopping for anything physical (souvenirs, furniture, books, tools, shoes, equipment), ask yourself: where will this go? Don’t buy it unless there is a place it can live. Something may need to leave in order for something else to come in.
Direct links to the articles:
1. https://transactional.blog/building-berkeleydb/page-format
2. https://transactional.blog/building-berkeleydb/entry-format
3. https://transactional.blog/building-berkeleydb/api-basics
4. https://transactional.blog/building-berkeleydb/point-reads
interesting quote:
“We don’t look too much at the competition because we might be influenced."
Dunn said many people overemphasize money, relative to other variables, as a path to contentment. Her research indicates that those who give priority to time over money tend to be happier in life.
2. Emacs,1976. vi, 1978. Vim, 1991
3. webkit/brave/chrome, 1996
4. Firefox, 2004
5. Excel, 1985
“Most people – maybe more than you think – are peace- and love-seeking creatures who are sometimes caught in bad situations. The most practical thing you can do, even in hard times, is to lead with curiosity, lead with respect, work hard to understand the people you might be taught to detest.
“That means seeing people with generous eyes, offering trust to others before they trust you. That means adopting a certain posture toward the world. If you look at others with the eyes of fear and judgment, you will find flaws and menace; but if you look out with a respectful attitude, you’ll often find imperfect people enmeshed in uncertainty, doing the best they can.
“Will casting this kind of attention change the people you are encountering? Maybe; maybe not. But this is about who you are becoming in corrosive times. Are you becoming more humane or less? Are you a person who obsesses over how unfairly you are treated, or are you a person who is primarily concerned by how you see and treat others? ‘Virtue is the attempt to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is’, Iris Murdoch wrote.”
- At Series D and beyond, you may be taking a serious amount of risk for little upside. Many people who join startups at this stage would be better off joining a publicly-traded company and either getting paid in all-cash or in cash & public stock.
- Joining at the seed stage is high risk-high reward. Just 1 in 4,000 seed-stage startups in our analysis exited for more than $500M, and just 7 in 100 exited for more than they raised. You’re taking a lot of risk at the seed stage—though you have the most upside here.
- If your startup is backed by a top VC firm, your odds go up significantly. Numbers jumped across the board when we looked at startups backed by 30 top VCs.
As a startup employee, you don’t have a portfolio like a VC might—but you can still build one chronologically.