GTA V made a billion dollars in three days. Fastest entertainment property ever to do it, faster than any movie. I contributed $60 and roughly eleven hours I should have spent sleeping. The heists are software architecture: three crew members, coordinated execution, one guy always fails his job (it’s me, I’m the crew member who fails).
Valve spent the week making announcements: SteamOS, Steam Machines, a controller with trackpads. They’re coming for the living room because Windows 8’s app store scares them. Watching a company build an escape hatch from a platform they depend on is the Google Reader lesson at corporate scale.
TIL: load testing exists and we’d never done one. Ran siege against staging. Staging died at 40 concurrent users. We have 200 at lunch. Cool cool cool.