Super fun article. I also like to see a "real" implementation of crazy ideas like this.
Can anyone confirm if the Microsoft DNS servers default to caching an unlimited amount of data? The article claims "Unlimited??" as the default for these systems. Eyeballing the pie chart looks like 20% of the servers are running Microsoft, which could provide quite a lot of storage.
Please don't. There's a perfectly lovely naturally emerged digital life form living in the spaces in between on the Internet, and this would threaten their habitat. Sure they haven't figured out we exist yet, and are certainly a long way from being able to communicate with us, but they seem kind to one another and I'd hate to see their evolution displaced.
Even unlimited is bound by memory/storage with probably an LRU eviction scheme. So unless your stored data is hot, or their storage is very large, it might not stay around long.
This is a showcase of larger open source projects used in the visual effects and animation industry. Several of them are contributed to by Disney engineers, but most people would not consider these Disney projects. Disney has open sourced and released some impressive open source projects over the years, and it's exciting to see their endorsement on these others.
I run Disney's open source program. This page is a showcase of all projects from Disney business units. It's currently slanted towards animation because these organizations have been the most prolific to date. We (Disney) expect to broaden the range of projects, to other types of open source projects, for example Dragonchain https://github.com/dragonchain/dragonchain
Alembic was originally Sony's thing, which ILM started using in their early Katana days because their own file format wasn't good enough for use with Katana (random access and lazy loading).
Sony gave it to ILM to start using, and then open-sourced it.
I'd quibble that while ILM and Pixar employees are technically now Disney employees, it's not as if they work for Walt Disney Animation Studios directly, so it's not as clear cut as you make out.
ILM and Pixar are very much Disney employees though, as in employees of the wider Walt Disney Company (which this page is for; the specific page for WDAS is here [1]). If you get a Silver Pass and your pay comes from TWDC's bank account, I'm pretty sure you are a Disney employee. WDAS, Pixar, and ILM are all just individual subsidiaries under the wider TWDC umbrella.
I still remember when Firefox switched to using SQLite for most of its internal data. It felt like it took 3 or 4 releases to work out the concurrency and blocking issues. I remember back in the day it had lots to do with fsync.
Has most of that been worked out between SQLite and newer Linux kernels, or is that a pit waiting for other applications that go the same route?
Can anyone confirm if the Microsoft DNS servers default to caching an unlimited amount of data? The article claims "Unlimited??" as the default for these systems. Eyeballing the pie chart looks like 20% of the servers are running Microsoft, which could provide quite a lot of storage.