Episode 2
Amir Michael
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Amir Michael. Join us as we listen to stories of growing up and coming up in Silicon Valley, from answering a Craigslist ad during the Dot Com Bust for a company with a funny name, through starting a project
December 6, 20191h 44m
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Show Notes
You can find Amir on Facebook at https://facebook.com/amir and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/digiamir.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Silcon wafers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics)
- The "Turbo button": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
- BBSs: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/
- Turbo Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
- Anders Hejlsberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
- UCSB's Basic Undergraduate RISC Processor (BURP): https://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~strukov/ece152BSpring2012/Labs/Lab2.pdf
- Thermal grease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease
- "The Datacenter as Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines" https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00874ED3V01Y201809CAC046
- Sun Modular Data Center, née Project Blackbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter
- Google Modular Data Center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Modular_Data_Center
- SPD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detect
- DRAM training: https://www.systemverilog.io/ddr4-initialization-and-calibration
- Origins of 19" rack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack#Overview_and_history
- Open Compute Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project
- Facebook Wedge switch: https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/facebook-open-switching-system-fboss-and-wedge-in-the-open/
- Backblaze drive reports: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/
- Busbar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busbar
Topics
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