[Links of the day] 21/03/2016: Twitter distributed file system, mechanical computer, broadband access

• Strong consistency in Manhattan : how twitter enforce consistency in its distributed storage system.
• Design Principles of Konrad Zuse's Mechanical Computers : metallic plate and hammer, that's all you need for making a computer. Well not really but at least no electricity is involved.
• Towards Enabling Broadband for a Billon Plus Population with TV White Spaces : authors present how to use TV white space to connect wifi cluster and bring internet to large portion of population that do not have access to it.