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I don’t know Julia Evans, certainly not her academic background. But she blogs eloquently from the standpoint of someone learning things from first principles,
by benreesman 4y ago
I don’t know Julia Evans, certainly not her academic background.
But she blogs eloquently from the standpoint of someone learning things from first principles, in an accessible, actionable way. As a self-taught person this is near and dear to me. She’s like the 3Blue1Brown of systems programming, and there’s not much higher praise.
Striking the balance between rigor and practical applicability is tough, especially while assuming little prior knowledge.
Keep up the good work @jvns!
- zero_shift 4y agoShe was a Staff Engineer at Stripe. She wrote a great primer on SQL too. https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ is a treasure trove
- benreesman 4y agoStripe is an interesting place. It’s clearly a great business, but they’ve let that bleed over a bit into thinking their p95 people are Google p95, which is trivially silly. It’s an awesome company, and they’ve got solid folks, but “Staff” at Stripe isn’t what makes Julia cool: Julia’s work with Recurse is way cooler. I mean we’ve got Consul: https://stripe.com/blog/service-discovery-at-stripe https://stripe.com/blog/service-discovery-at-stripe And then etcd: https://stripe.com/blog/operating-kubernetes https://stripe.com/blog/operating-kubernetes Both courtesy of Julia incidentally. Chubby has worked since like 2003. We’re just talking a different level of ball game.