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The argument that "we need to use microservices to get hard boundaries between components," is really "we are so undisciplined that we need to add considerable complexity to protect ourselves from ourselves." →
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Boutique cloud consultancy helping you get the most out of AWS, GCP, and other cloud platforms. @[email protected]
Seattle, WA Beigetreten Nisan 2018
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i think it was the google SRE book where i first heard this rule of thumb -- you can plan to 10x your current state /at best! if you're lucky!/ -- but anything past that that is foolish, pointless conjecture that will bear no resemblance to reality.
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AOC is the only leader I've heard articulate any sort of plan. I don't agree with her on everything, but at least she has specific ideas and is willing to try to implement them.
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I have never in my adult life felt so detached from my party. Biden seems to have no clue what is going on. Every elected leader seems to have one play and one play only - send contextless emails and texts asking for money. WHAT IS THE PLAN?
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Every time I think about the Democratic party, I feel angry. We are a country in suffering. A majority of us want change, and the Dems seem absolutely unable to capitalize on that. The most enraging thing - I don't even think they're trying.
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Is this marketing just AI generated at this point? What is a cleanroom for my lakehouse??
Databricks@databricks
Cleanrooms can transform your security posture & open up use cases. But current solutions have their shortcomings. Until now! Meet data #cleanrooms for the Lakehouse, which enables organizations to share data on any cloud in a privacy-safe way ⬇️ dbricks.co/3QRfVzk
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Can we acknowledge how ridiculous it is that startups and even individuals can bankrupt themselves...
... with an AWS bill?
I cannot fathom why Amazon does not do anything meaningful to allow setting e.g. limits on accounts. Why do we need to hear stories like this on repeat?
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Working at different types of companies - e.g. "traditional" companies, big tech, startups, agencies, finance etc - you realize this:
Different software engineering approaches work better/worse for different companies. There's no one silver bullet across the industry.
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This is spot on and applies to individual contributors too. If you are bringing a very senior engineer who only worked at big shops, they will get confused why they can’t hand off as much as they used to.
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
A major risk at small startups is the culture clash of bringing a manager in who has only worked at the big places from their first job. There are exceptions, but eg someone with 10 years of Microsoft & Google combined often has trouble when hired to lead at a scrappy scaleup.
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I do sometimes worry, though, that I've gotten too *expensive* for writing a lot of code to be a positive-ROI activity.
Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン@rakyll
You are never too senior to write code. I only laugh at people who believe they are too good to write any code as a software engineer.
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Leaders with highly scheduled, rigid calendars (“sorry, can’t help now, my next opening is 2 weeks out”) make it hard to operate well in a fast-paced environment because their schedule isn’t nimble enough. They are in essence dealing this week with the priorities of 2 weeks ago.
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Every few years I awake from my slumber, look around to see if frontend has become a stable platform, then go back to backend for another few years. These folks are doing great work, but the platform and target are still under so much flux. I miss RoR.
Andrew Lunny@alunny
Over the weekend, my team at @stripe converted the company's largest JS codebase from Flow to @typescript. We modified about 3.5 million lines of code, and then hundreds of developers came in Monday morning ready to write TS.
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