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by athoscouto 3y ago
Even though each cluster was single AZ the whole system wasn't, so we weren't bound by the capacity of a single AZ. Most of the situations where we needed to drastically scale up were known ahead of time as well (e.g. campaign fro
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by athoscouto 3y ago
We did. But the persisted data didn't live inside those ephemeral compute clusters though.
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by athoscouto 3y ago
Their siloing strategy, which I'll roughly refer as resolving a request from a single AZ, is a good way to keep operations and monitoring simple. A past team of mine managed services in a similar fashion. We had a couple (usually 2-4)
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by athoscouto 4y ago
I'm going to diverge from sibling comments: it depends. As the article points out, k8s may really simplify deploys for devs, while giving the autonomy. But it isn't always worth it.
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by athoscouto 4y ago
At this point, it seems common knowledge that overuse of YouTube and social media can have long-term effects on attention, etc. (I would appreciate references here, if anyone has it) But do we know how we that relates with other stuff like
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by athoscouto 4y ago
It is important to note that Brazilian economy's minister said there is no plan to implement a common currency[0]. This declaration came after Argentinian ambassor said, in a visit to Brazil, that there were plans to create it. It seem
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by athoscouto 5y ago
I also like "Performance Under Load" by Eran Landau, William Thurston and Tim Bozarth ( https://netflixtechblog.medium.com/performance-under-load-3e... ) very much.
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by athoscouto 5y ago
Maybe you'll end up needing it someday and then we'll have the The Big Little Guide to Bitwise Operators. Will also take the opportunity to thank you for the message queues one, very good read!
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by athoscouto 5y ago
I've been getting to the same conclusion regarding interview questions. Creating them from real problems helps you to assess the skills you really need and improve candidate experience. Once you've created a few interview question
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Atlassian Engineering’s handbook: a guide for autonomous teams(atlassian.com)
7 points by athoscouto 5y ago|0 comments
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by athoscouto 6y ago
If you have the technical background and is interested in a general and short introduction I strongly recommend Ethereum White Paper ( https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/ ). Haven't went through it in a while,
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by athoscouto 6y ago
Would you be willing to share the list with us?
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VTEX raises $225M at a $1.7B valuation(techcrunch.com)
1 points by athoscouto 6y ago|0 comments
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by athoscouto 6y ago
I don't think there is a silver bullet here. I've been working on our engineering hiring process for the last couple years for a company with ~200 engineers - reading everything I can on the subject during this while. Most article
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VTEX, an e-commerce platform used by Walmart, raises $140M led by SoftBank(techcrunch.com)
1 points by athoscouto 7y ago|0 comments