Jarred Ward

@bitsandhops It's tradeoffs all the way down.

Recently someone told me that distributed systems are a solved problem. That’s good to know! I must have missed that break through.

Never deploy to prod on Friday afternoon. Unless you're a customer. Then by all means. That hits different.

@maiab My wife had it recently and her sore throat didn’t go away until a round of antibiotics.

@maiab Strep?

I have had a sore throat for EIGHT DAYS someone please help me I am dying

Love this. Intuiting how a complex distributed system handles these types of failures is not easy. As we speak, I was reviewing an open PR in a large distributed system to adjust retries/timeouts in the face of overload. Excited to model out the problem in the tool. Would love to see rate limiters, load shedding, and other common strategies in the tool to see how those affect things as well.

This is very much a v0.1, and I'm sure there are tons of bugs and missing features. If you'd like to help improve it, or build your own: github.com/marcbrooker/st…

Over the last couple weeks, I've been experimenting with a new way to teach folks about stability and metastable failures in distributed systems.

@_xjdr Magit is indispensable.

could you add magit to codex? maybe ... should you add magit to codex? ABSOLUTELY

Still crazy to me that you can spin up DynamoDB and pay zero dollars if you don't use it, or do this.

@MarcJBrooker What’s the latency overhead look like for this? Say us-east-1 and us-west-2? Going to try it out, but curious what you’re observing/targetting for consistent reads and writes. Additionally, is the SLA still 5 9’s with this on?

We built some very cool replication technology that backs both this and Aurora DSQL's multi-region mode.

Strong consistency for DynamoDB Global Tables is now GA!

@samlambert Augmented Engineering

Using AI and agents for coding is insanely powerful but real engineers don't really want to associate with "vibe coding" which is distinctly different. What term can we use for real software engineering powered by AI?

@thdxr Where’s Golang rank for ya?

having switched between a lot of different languages while also doing them for extended periods of time i just can't keep pretending some languages just aren't innately faster to ship with doesn't matter how good you are it's out of your control

@stevedylandev @usgraphics And their website! It’s something special buying and building your font with them. Just super cool execution.

Nothing beats Berkeley Mono by @usgraphics

They're just like human programmers.

@bunjavascript @thdxr Every parents dream for their children to be better than them.

what’re you working on?

Every parents dream for their children to be better than them.

@jpotts_irr How do I get my agent to know?

Soon it is going to be not who you know but who your agent knows. Procurement, sponsor bank discovery, domain experts, etc

@ImSh4yy Amen

I'd switch away from React before I write a single "use client" or "use server"

@chatgpt21 Wrong tool for that job IMO.

Claude 4 opus is insane at coding but can’t do 8.69 - 8.11. Can we really reach AGI with llms when simple issues like this are still prevailing. Thankfully open ai hasn’t had much of these issues. Sad to see Claude is still dealing with it

"Which is bigger 9.9 or 9.11?" is a wheelhouse type of question for smolagents.