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Hollerith to Lambda

Hollerith to Lambda

Ant Stanley

June 19, 2020
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  1. Herman Hollerith 1884 Applies for Patent Herman Hollerith 1887 Tabulating

    System first used 1890 Awarded Patent No. 395,782 1890 Used in US Census
  2. Australia 2016 Census 9 August – Census Day 11 August

    – Site back on line 23 September – Census completed Error message on 9 August
  3. Australia 2016 Census AU$6.9 million, 2 year contract to IBM

    Tested to 1 million submissions per hour AU$469,367.50 load testing contract AU$24 million extra costs due to failure
  4. Austin Wilshire and Bernd Hartzer Hackathon - 14 August 2016

    Austin Wilshite and Bernd Hartzer 54 hours to build AU$0 on load testing Tested to 4 million submissions per hour Built on AWS Lambda
  5. Ephemeralization “more and more with less and less until eventually

    you can do everything with nothing” Buckminster Fuller
  6. Abstraction Ferranti Atlas Ferranti Atlas First Computer to use Transistors

    18x memory of BRLESC-1 Virtual Memory 6 months to assemble Multi-tasking
  7. Abstraction Atlas Supervisor Atlas Supervisor First Modern Operating System Hold

    200 jobs at one time 12 executions at any one time Just in time compilation
  8. Diffusion Crossing the Chasm Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling

    High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers Geoffrey Moore
  9. Evolution Punctuated Equilibrium Species remain stable for long periods (stasis)

    before undergoing abrupt and rapid change (speciation)
  10. Creative Destruction “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the

    economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one” Joseph Schumpeter