Open Source Infrastructure and the Bus Bar Incident

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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