STRANGE TECH · DISCOVERY
How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
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STRANGE TECH · ARCHIVE
Internet Archive
Billions of saved web pages, plus free books, films, music and software.
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STRANGE TECH · FREE COURSES
MIT OpenCourseWare
Actual MIT course material — lectures, problem sets and exams — free.
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STRANGE TECH · EDUCATION
Khan Academy
Learn maths from counting to calculus at your own pace, free forever.
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STRANGE TECH · DEV TECH
You Don’t Need React: Vanilla JS UI Library
Building lightweight reactive UIs without mega framework overhead.
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STRANGE TECH · NASA
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
A new image of the universe every single day since 1995, explained by astronomers.
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STRANGE TECH · RESEARCH
arXiv — Research Before It Is Published
Where AI, physics and math papers appear first, free for anyone to read.
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