✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-10-04
Travel hiccups, mind-blowing data stats, and a massive fundraising.
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Travel changes this week mean I am still updating my AI Field Day 5 delegate notes that sit in my drafts pile to be published. Due to the travel changes, I also missed out on Monktoberfest (again!) but I am thankful for the amazing organizers that helped me find a way to give back in my absence.
Two big numbers stories that caught me eye this week:
For perspective, 3.8 Tbps is Terabits per second per second (i.e. trillions)… and is equivalent of fully saturating a 32 port 100G Ethernet LAN switch with traffic… and then adding even more traffic on top… but now, imagine that traffic flowing over the Internet to one place every second. My math might be off but that’s like sending two dozen compressed text copies of Wikipedia… every second… or if you double-side printed the compressed text copies of Wikipedia as wartime payload… that would be like three Iowa-class battleships firing those Wikipedias — every second. 🤯
I’ve written about Poolside before and $500M is a staggering Series B raise for the very precise focus their leadership has shared publicly. 🤯
Techmeme: Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
By Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Poolside, which is building AI-assisted software development tools, raised a $500M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, reportedly at a $3B valuation (Bloomberg)
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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