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James Kretchmar

@jameskretchmar

VP, CTO @Akamai

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Y2K was boring because engineers worked to make sure it would be. But now they're working on a bigger problem coming in #Y2038 when many systems' internal clock will need an extra binary digit to store the time. The risks are greater and already appearing! bit.ly/2AWn8ZC

Y2K was boring because engineers worked to make sure it would be. But now they're working on a bigger problem coming in #Y2038 when many systems' internal clock will need an extra binary digit to store the time. The risks are greater and already appearing! bit.ly/2AWn8ZC
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We live in an age where it seems like everything can connect to everything effortlessly but there remain lots of difficult problems requiring clever solutions. See MIT's new idea for sub-to-air comms. (ELF is old but interesting!) alum.mit.edu/slice/why-cant… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communica…

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.. and @akamai create history, again, during the IndianPremierLeague final on May 12. A record 18.6M concurrent viewers watched the 2019 @ipl final between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians live on Hotstar, delivered with Akamai! #VIVOIPL #MIvCSK

.<a href="/hotstartweets/">.</a> and @akamai create history, again, during the <a href="/IPL/">IndianPremierLeague</a> final on May 12. A record 18.6M concurrent viewers watched the 2019 @ipl final between <a href="/ChennaiIPL/">Chennai Super Kings</a> and <a href="/mipaltan/">Mumbai Indians</a> live on Hotstar, delivered with Akamai! #VIVOIPL #MIvCSK
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Will Law on stage at #EdgeWorld2019 showing live streaming video on the Internet 3 seconds behind real life and way faster than the satellite feed you’d see on traditional broadcast!

Will Law on stage at #EdgeWorld2019 showing live streaming video on the Internet 3 seconds behind real life and way faster than the satellite feed you’d see on traditional broadcast!
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An update is available for Ops Clock, my spare-time personal project app for working with times, dates and worldwide time zones. It now natively supports iPad and has some new features in the time zone calculator. Download it for free on the app store here itunes.apple.com/us/app/ops-clo…

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This is fantastic! Follow the Apollo 11 mission in real time with synchronized radio transmissions, transcripts and photography, and some limited telemetry data as well. Thanks Gisele Ellis 🎗️! apolloinrealtime.org/11/

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Excited to be at #DigitalX in Cologne, Germany to talk about Akamai Technologies and the invention of the #edge on the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Internet.

Excited to be at #DigitalX in Cologne, Germany to talk about <a href="/Akamai/">Akamai Technologies</a> and the invention of the #edge on the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Internet.
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Today, at 15:35, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses. Read our full announcement here: ripe.net/publications/n… In the picture, the Registration Services team at the RIPE NCC

Today, at 15:35, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses.

Read our full announcement here:
ripe.net/publications/n…

In the picture, the Registration Services team at the RIPE NCC
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My team at Akamai Technologies looked at our streaming video traffic stats last month and we saw something special. When people across Spain applaud for healthcare workers each night there's a brief dip in traffic starting just before 8pm as streams are paused. #COVID19 #covid19ESP

My team at <a href="/Akamai/">Akamai Technologies</a> looked at our streaming video traffic stats last month and we saw something special. When people across Spain applaud for healthcare workers each night there's a brief dip in traffic starting just before 8pm as streams are paused. #COVID19 #covid19ESP
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Never assume the smart people before us have already made all the big discoveries: “For millennia it was widely assumed that there was no faster way to multiply. Then in 1960, the 23-year-old Russian mathematician Anatoly Karatsuba took a seminar ...” quantamagazine.org/mathematicians…

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All these years in CS & I only recently learned the origin of the word “bit": Claude Shannon's famous 1948 paper on information theory: "If the base 2 is used the resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly bits, a word suggested by J. W. Tukey." A binary digit!