+1 and also the fact that Google Pixel's "Now Playing" feature is such an amazing application of the same idea. Though I wonder how different are their implementations

Google's now playing feature is somehow always offline (to relieve privacy concerns) and is somehow still incredible at recognizing even obscure songs. Really impressive.

I also love that it just shows up on my lock screen.

Supposedly while building the backend, they realised the actual summary data for a reasonable breadth of tracks (say, anything you'd likely hear on the radio or on a jukebox) was tiny and so, why build a service at all when you can just ship the data to phones ?

Recently for whatever reason I was listening to the twist/ cover "Stacy's Dad" and Now Playing recognised it as the rather more famous original Fountain's of Wayne "Stacy's Mom". So yeah, it doesn't know everything. It also doesn't recognise lots of obscure stuff I own that's like B-sides or special editions that never saw radio play, or bands that my friends were in (but everybody I know has read both Steve Albini's "Some of your friends are probably already this fucked" and the KLF's "The Manual" and so none of them signed a recording contract and thus you've never heard of them) but I've never had a situation where I heard something I liked at like a bar or somewhere and Now Playing didn't know what it is.

yeah packaging the data and updating it async does make a lot more sense. Also, I guess its fine that it doesn't know it all but covers a good percentage of requests

Could you elaborate that a bit more on this? I am on SDE side and keen on understanding the PM motivations as well

I like the part " _microservices is basically SOA_ " , want to say that loud so many times myself :)

I'd like to know more of this *microservice band that is basically SoaD

vector search is everywhere nowadays. Glad to see another success story. Kudos to the team

that is some really cool work there. Thanks for sharing

Kudos to @sjdz for this. Really like the aesthetics. The ability to change formatting elements for ease of reading is bang on.

you just nailed it with the power law example. But how would you explain the _rags-to-riches_ scenario?

It's easier to make money if you have money, but it's not impossible to make money if you don't. A flash of genius and/or stroke of luck can still take you from no money to some money, and if you continue applying skill and have reasonable luck (and take steps to mitigate bad luck) then it will only get easier to make more money. Then you'll also be able to set up your kids to start in a luckier position.

Rags to riches is rare.

It's a compelling origin story though. Past financial hardship can be spun as rags quite easily, so we hear the story a lot more than it "really" happens.

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Kudos. This is quite impressive @skzv

Thank you!