Senior Developer at Micro Focus Ltd
CaliberRDM Storyboard. UTF-8 Everywhere. Transcript of Rendering the World Presentation. This is a transcript of my Rendering the World session for anyone who was not able to attend the FOSS4G conference.
This transcript is based on my memory and is not a recording so there may be differences from the actual presentation. My name is Young Hahn. You can follow me on twitter or on GitHub. Today I’m going to be presenting not just my work but the work of my colleagues: AJ Ashton, Dave Cole, Konstantin Kaefer, Artem Pavlenko, Dane Springmeyer, Tom MacWright, and Will White. If you’re going to follow anyone, please follow these people. We work at MapBox here in Washington, DC. MapBox Streets We recently launched a new product called MapBox Streets. Great, we’ve got a cool map. Suppose you were to start up TileMill and ask it to render the world down to zoom level 15, 16, maybe 17. And if you were to do a little googling around the web for how much space it would take to store all these tiles you would probably run across this OSM wiki page. Tile-based mapping Live rendering. Bret Victor, beast of burden.
Learning the Guitar. Poor Man's Scalability - The Art Of Delightful Software. Last week, Famigo was featured in both TechCrunch and VentureBeat.
I knew about these in advance, and I also knew that while both would drive a lot of traffic, the traffic wouldn't stick around for long. We needed to scale up, but we didn't need to scale up for long. Add to that the fact that we wanted to scale up temporarily without spending any money and you have a fun little optimization problem! Starting Point Before I made any changes, I did a simple load test just to see what we were starting with. I installed httperf, and then directed 20 GETs a second for a minute to the index of our site. I didn't get too upset here; I expected us to do poorly. On a side note, I had absolutely no idea how much traffic to expect from our PR blitz. True App Performance In my initial load test with httperf, I noticed something interesting: the response time to the initial batch of GETs weren't even that good. I learned a few surprising facts about our site in YSlow.
Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online. Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) firmly positioned himself as the finest Soviet director of the post-War period.
But his influence extended well beyond the Soviet Union. The Cahiers du cinéma consistently ranked his films on their top ten annual lists. Ingmar Bergman went so far as to say, "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream. " And Akira Kurosawa acknowledged his influence too, adding, "I love all of Tarkovsky's films. I love his personality and all his works. Shot between 1962 and 1986, Tarkovsky's seven feature films often grapple with metaphysical and spiritual themes, using a distinctive cinematic style.
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