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Am I the only one that found that there wasn't really much actual actionable information in here? There's basically no specific information about how they scale

Am I the only one that found that there wasn't really much actual actionable information in here? There's basically no specific information about how they scaled along the axes they established were important

HenryR 8y ago
That’s totally a fair point. I could have given a more concrete talk about how I’ve done these things in real systems (and the original version of this talk, presented internally to my company, had more real details and spoke very candidly about mistakes that I’d made along the way). Here I wanted to give more of a “here’s how you might want to structure your thinking, along with some basic design principles” kind of talk - I wish I’d had time to give more detail!
- hardwaresofton 8y ago
  Yeah it was an good talk from the perspective of laying out the landscape and I found myself agreeing with everything, only to find that I was close to the end of the slide deck :( Is there a blog somewhere where you've written a bit more about it?
  - HenryR 8y ago
    Unfortunately not (my blog is http://the-paper-trail.org http://the-paper-trail.org but tends to be more theoretical than practical). That would make a good post though!
scarface74 8y ago
I think of high level talks like these emphasizing timelessness. Technologies change over time and with in different contexts. But the theory remains as a way of thinking abstractly about a problem. Besides, at the level of jobs I apply to now, interviewers care much more about my thought process than specific technologies.
carapace 8y ago
It's a bit dated but "Scalable Internet Architectures" by Theo Schlossnagle is still good (IMHO) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853963.Scalable_Internet_Architectures https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853963.Scalable_Internet... I see he did a talk on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WuT2rdLK5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WuT2rdLK5A

HenryR 8y ago

That’s totally a fair point. I could have given a more concrete talk about how I’ve done these things in real systems (and the original version of this talk, presented internally to my company, had more real details and spoke very candidly about mistakes that I’d made along the way). Here I wanted to give more of a “here’s how you might want to structure your thinking, along with some basic design principles” kind of talk - I wish I’d had time to give more detail!

hardwaresofton 8y ago
Yeah it was an good talk from the perspective of laying out the landscape and I found myself agreeing with everything, only to find that I was close to the end of the slide deck :( Is there a blog somewhere where you've written a bit more about it?
- HenryR 8y ago
  Unfortunately not (my blog is http://the-paper-trail.org http://the-paper-trail.org but tends to be more theoretical than practical). That would make a good post though!

scarface74 8y ago

I think of high level talks like these emphasizing timelessness. Technologies change over time and with in different contexts. But the theory remains as a way of thinking abstractly about a problem. Besides, at the level of jobs I apply to now, interviewers care much more about my thought process than specific technologies.

carapace 8y ago

It's a bit dated but "Scalable Internet Architectures" by Theo Schlossnagle is still good (IMHO) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853963.Scalable_Internet_Architectures https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853963.Scalable_Internet... I see he did a talk on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WuT2rdLK5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WuT2rdLK5A