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@JorgeO The multi-table joins giving real "let the builders build" energy. I feel bad for whoever inherited those queries
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Jorge Ortiz@JorgeO·
As a many-decade veteran of the database wars, I approached this post with real curiosity: how did they address problems that vexed so many before them? Turns out: you can serve a billion users with Postgres by using read replicas and… moving as much out of Postgres as you can.
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Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig

This is genius in its simplicity. They’re not using exotics. It’s just… best practices. Ten years of “shard everything, adopt NoSQL, go distributed, sacrifice a goat to CAP theorem,” and here’s @OpenAI serving a billion users with “have you tried adding read replicas?”

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cooper b@cooperb·
@lucy_guo Wow that's great! I can tell that's a big deal for you and that's how we're different
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Lucy Guo@lucy_guo·
@cooperb Wait until you hear about one of the largest EDM festivals I just got booked at
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Patrick Collison@patrickc·
Who's doing interesting olfactory work? IMO scent is the underrated sense. It's so potent and arresting (often the first thing we describe about distinctive places -- e.g. the smell of the ocean rather than its appearance), but most spaces treat the aromatic dimension as an afterthought. Why are soaring lobbies not infused with fresh sandalwood, cedar, jasmine, or pine?
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cooper b@cooperb·
@WriteAheadLog I've been able to get Claude to generate SVG arch diagrams with labels -- it uses the Mermaid charts lib
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Adam Fletcher@WriteAheadLog·
What's the best AI-enabled diagramming tool? For example, imagine I wanted a tool that I could describe Maslow's pyramid to and it would draw the pyramid with the text. AFAICT the getting the text to be real text is impossible in the current models. #AI
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cooper b@cooperb·
@WriteAheadLog All this founder mode advice is so dated at best, it's not 2001 anymore
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Adam Fletcher@WriteAheadLog·
Okay not half. But honestly we can do better and most companies do do better.
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Adam Fletcher@WriteAheadLog·
Half this advice is illegal.
Cory Levy@cory

some of my notes from the Art of Hiring event earlier today: @rabois - don't hire anyone over the age of 30 - recruiters are probably ineffective but still important b/c they drive hiring momentum - it takes 3-30 mins to evaluate someone (probably 3 though) - undiscovered talent is mispriced. interns can be MVPs on teams - people who positively manipulate the world around them are great hires @bchesky - goal is to have smallest team possible (i.e. be the Navy SEALs... not the Navy) - be careful of B players. The old saying "A players hire A players B players hire C players" should go like "A players hire A players....and B players hire LOTS of C players b/c they are so bad" - be in the details. so much so that people complain. and then be in even more details. - when hiring someone, they are guilty until proven innocent. someone should be selling their case on why to join. @eglyman - looks for "aliens" and/or exceptional candidates with little competition - ranks candidates "strong no, no, yes, strong yes". won't hire people who have all yeses. - recommended to read great books on this like: Wooden on Leadership, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success, High Output Management, and The Score Takes Care of Itself @mike_sheb - be a broken record. constantly repeat why you are here (mission, goals, etc.) - sweat the small stuff - ask candidates if they are in the phase of their lives where they can work like an olympian to help screen people out.

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💥 Nurse D, RN/1L
💥 Nurse D, RN/1L@TakeThatNurses·
Kevin O’Leary being against this legislation is precisely the reason this legislation needs to exist in the first place
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cooper b@cooperb·
Look, it's a company run by 2 guys who were basically raised by venture capitalists. I don't know what everybody expected them to be like, if not this.
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cooper b@cooperb·
@JorgeO @umachingunde Yeah makes sense. I've always been so ashamed to wake up others, but I've also definitely seen a lot of product teams that treat alert response as best effort so I can imagine how it becomes passé
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Jorge Ortiz@JorgeO·
@cooperb @umachingunde That was on a product team that did not have the level of on-call rigor that I expected. Pages were escalating too often. I wanted to both up the cost (you’re not just waking up secondary, but also your manager) and create visibility for myself (how often is it really?).
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Jorge Ortiz@JorgeO·
@umachingunde I would add myself on the escalation path after two layers of my team. Eventually I started adding myself in parallel with the second layer.
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cooper b@cooperb·
@Carnage4Life @kelseyhightower I also used to make this much and then quit. It turns out I like to do a lot of things in addition to what I do for money.
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Tom Dale@tomdale·
Oh shit I totally didn't connect the dots that YC's Sam Altman is the double-popped-collar Loopt guy from WWDC!!
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Jorge Ortiz
Jorge Ortiz@JorgeO·
@DanGrover Rate of drift varies by team maturity, problem domain, environment, etc. I found it ideal to spend 1 week colocated out of every 6-12 weeks. Colocated week “felt” very low productivity (all meetings, no actual work), but productivity the week(s) *after* was through the roof.
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Dan Grover@DanGrover·
After a few years of this, current theory is that remote work is like 90-120% better for focused IC jobs like eng, but like 50% productivity for managerial or collaborative work. Some firms could be less productive even if most people in them are more productive.
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cooper b@cooperb·
@GergelyOrosz Re: 2, I think there's something a little disingenuous in here. Quite telling that they had never before tried taking PDX-04 offline even though they had done so with EVERY OTHER FACILITY. That suggests to me this was known to be a risk.
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cooper b@cooperb·
@GergelyOrosz Re: 1, I think this stuff is super fascinating but generally an attractive nuisance. 4 9s (good availability target for control plane) affords you only 4.3min/month. I don't believe any diagnosis/remediation can happen in a physical facility in 4min. Just interesting, not useful.
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Gergely Orosz
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz·
It’s rare to have this honest and not-PR-edited of an incident review published, and to do it this quickly. After such a major outage at a vendor, this level of detail is usually kept internal, and the public only sees a heavily edited (and much shorter) version. Not here:
Matthew Prince 🌥@eastdakota

Just published an initial post mortem on the incident that impacted many @Cloudflare customers use of our dashboard and APIs. Lots of lessons. #CodeOrange blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on…

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