Human vs Machine

Like, literally.

There are few wrinkles to iron, but heck, I can’t wait ‘till everything’s perfect.

Stay tune.
Maybe we’ll put another objects other than news sometime soon.

Since every time I give them my business card, my email ends up in their Email Blast.

The word “cloud computing” has been buzzing in my head ever since I played with EC2 and S3 in early 2007.

When industrial revolution began nearly a decade ago, factories and farmers are build and maintain their power generators themselves. Later, when electricity companies arrive, factories are begun to dump their generators and “subscribe” to these electricity companies.

Computing need will evolve in that way also. IT companies will dump their server farms, keep small numbers of servers with a lot of network peripheral, and “subscribe” to computing companies. No additional headache to maintain racks, powers, and air coolers.

I’m not dreaming. These are happening. Right here, right now.

When you reach frightening numbers, say 5GB/day, you’ll realize that you need massive computing resource. When you reach 5TB/day, you know that everything they taught us in Computer Science school is obsolete.

RDBMS is irrelevant.
OOP is dead.
(What? Trying to load/stream 5TB with precious java.io.* is a way to brutal suicide. SAX-like event-driven parser is yet another way, although you’ll get far more elegant death).

Just after I looked that sketch we’ve made several days ago, I know I won’t be writing code, if I have too, same way that I wrote code years ago.

2 poin untuk digali lagi:

1. Detik bukan lagi portal iklan berberita, tapi menjadi portal berita beriklan. Coba anda bandingkan skrinsut yang dibuat om Momon. Layout Detik dahulu banyak “disetir” kepentingan pengiklan. Pada satu waktu malah pernah 1/3 bagian atas, yang konon merupakan bagian sakral menurut ilmu per-Zeldman-an, sepenuhnya terisi iklan.

Saya nggak menyalahkan pengiklan. Justru berterima kasih karenanya.
Online marketing adalah dimensi baru. Di Indonesia, komposisi budget online advertising rata-rata masih berada dibawah 5% dari total budget pengiklan. Wajar-wajar saja jika sektor ini, terutama tampilan dan tata letak iklan, masih kacau balau.

Dengan kondisi itu, mengakomodir kepentingan konten dan komersial lantas menyajikannya dalam paten yang ‘rapi’, jelas bukan hal gampang.

2. Blogdetik dan DetikMap itu hanya ‘appetizer’. Kita belum merilis main desert. Jika Detik berubah menjadi bukan hanya portal berita, apakah the-so-called kompetisi itu masih juga relevan?

Lantas apa saja main desert-nya?

Ada deh, hehe.

Banyak :)

ps. Saking banyaknya kita butuh 4 Java software engineer, 3 Ruby software engineer, dan 4 System Network engineer. Kalau anda suka humor, langganan TechCrunch/ReadWriteWeb, baca Wired secara reguler, dan penganut agama open source—itu artinya kita punya banyak hal untuk diobrolin.
Saya menunggu CV anda.