djspoons

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by djspoons 7y ago
Actually one of my coworkers gave a talk at Facebook Performance summit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7Zhd6gLiw (Disclaimer: brief product pitch in the first minute as part of the speaker intro)
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by djspoons 7y ago
Well, yeah, there's not much difference between a histogram and hundreds-of-percentiles. But there's a huge difference between a histogram and just a single percentile (whether it's p50, p95, p99, or whatever). If you just wa
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by djspoons 10y ago
It's just % of bigrams that appear in Google's sample of books. [1] Not especially meaningful, I admit! [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/info
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by djspoons 10y ago
Tracing and debugging-in-developer are solving different problems, though: tracing is there to help you understand issues that you can't reproduce in development. And for the record, Zipkin is only one tracing tool and is really aimed
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by djspoons 10y ago
Yeah, we were debating about whether I should write a post about "the end of servers" instead of "the end of microservices." I thought we'd get a livelier discussion with microservices, ;) but I totally agree that t
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by djspoons 10y ago
I wrote the post with pretty rose-colored glasses on. :) I totally agree that microservices can be a form of premature optimization, in particular because of the cost with today's tooling. But I think there's hope that lot of thos
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by djspoons 10y ago
A distributed system is one that can fail in new and novel ways
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by djspoons 10y ago
Well maybe the more important part is building "laboratories of democracy" [1] than a republic. ;) Give each part of the org the ability to experiment, see what works best, and spread those ideas around. [1] https://en.
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by djspoons 10y ago
Thanks for the comments! +1 to "APIs necessary for our customers." I think every developer should have a customer-oriented mindset, even if their customers are just other developers in the same organization.