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the problem isn’t finding data, it’s figuring out what to do with it.

-Mike Loukides
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The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products

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the best data scientists tend to be “hard scientists,” particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors.

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Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.

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The new sysadmin won’t power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he’ll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service.

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The companies that didn’t suffer, including Netflix, knew how to design for reliability; they understood resilience, spreading data across zones, and a whole lot of reliability engineering.

-Mike Loukides
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