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by kevan 7y ago
Any reason you can't achieve this today with DynamoDB+DAX?
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by kevan 7y ago
There's definitely some advantages to using age-old practices. It's easy to explain how trust and verification works in a system when 2 people have separate physical keys and you need both to perform an action. It's a lot har
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by kevan 7y ago
Why wouldn't this be allowed? This is the company equivalent of a person working on commission vs salary. Salary is more stable and predictable, commission is riskier but has higher potential for upside.
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by kevan 7y ago
When you're grinding there's significant metal and abrasive dust thrown into the air. Given the airflow they generate and how fine the radioactive powder is even a small nick in the capsule could end up with a lot of material in t
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by kevan 7y ago
The press release isn't very clear about exactly which contract isn't being renewed. Other news sources[1] indicate that it's specifically the air delivery contract. Not exactly a surprise with events like this[2] in recent m
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by kevan 7y ago
And clearly it still holds true because things like AWS Snowmobile[1] exist. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
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by kevan 7y ago
People read the agenda and complete action items before the meeting, but the expectation is that everyone reads the doc at the start of the meeting.
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by kevan 7y ago
I've had good luck avoiding body rust in Minnesota, but on my last car (sold at 15yrs old) I ended up replacing every suspension and brake component over the last 3 years due to corrosion. My current car is 10 years old and I've a
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by kevan 7y ago
We're missing a lot of context about this situation to tell if anyone was being unreasonable. A reminder for everyone: unless you're all in on waterfall with complete specs, user stories are placeholders for a conversation. Talk t
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by kevan 7y ago
A bit more recently (I hope), PCI requirements helpfully forced our hand to stop supporting IE8.
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by kevan 7y ago
Zooming out, the big picture here is to create systems for yourself (whatever works for you) that make success more likely in moments when your motivation is low. For example, I pack my gym bag the night before and put it by my work laptop
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by kevan 8y ago
I feel that in the past (present is TBD) Amazon under-indexed on developer experience, tooling, and infrastructure but I think it was caused by lack of investment, not lack of ownership. There's nuance between "Oh no, <shared_r
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by kevan 8y ago
Very similar sentiment at Amazon. >Leaders are owners...They never say “that’s not my job". You own your entire problem space, not just your solution. If something unexpected comes up, you're still ultimately responsible for de
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by kevan 8y ago
Vaguely related, Mathias was one of Wintergarten's[1] big inspirations [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
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by kevan 8y ago
Good advice here, I'll add some tactical tips that have helped me: 1. Offload mental overhead. For example, try organizing systems like GTD. What works for you will be highly personal, but the goal is to clear your head of everything y
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by kevan 8y ago
This article provides some info: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...
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by kevan 8y ago
I like it. Back in 2015 I built something similar[1] for my company and it helped us make the transition from time-bound releases with QA on mainline to per-PR QA and CI/CD. [1] https://medium.com/@kevanahlquist/do
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by kevan 8y ago
This is great. As a University of Minnesota graduate I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for gopher. Even in 2010 I remember we had some old gopher documentation floating around the IT department. Here's a summary[1] of its h
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by kevan 8y ago
Same story at Amazon but most people I know prefer to use their own cards to churn points.
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by kevan 8y ago
When you're dealing with JS files it makes sense, but the example is an inline <script> tag. It might be an abundance of caution just in case you're dealing with CDN optimizers that slice and dice inline scripts. I've e
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by kevan 8y ago
> is there any similar profession where interviews like these take place? Based on some conversations with friends it sounds like Big 4 consulting is similar. The behavioral questions are the same, and instead of coding they have "c
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by kevan 8y ago
I don't know if the overall statement is true, but Spanner is relational and the statement was limited to non-relational databases.
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by kevan 8y ago
I don't know anyone that really enjoys phone screens or tools like HackerRank. But, given the percentage of people with 5+ years of coding skills on their resume that wash out with fizz-buzz questions I think they're a necessary f
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by kevan 8y ago
Depends on the culture. I interned at a place that fell under the Critical Infrastructure Protection program. It was so strict you'd get a visit from security if you tried to badge through a door you didn't have access to.
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by kevan 8y ago
Given the historical context (S3 launched 12 years ago, 5 months before EC2 launched with the us-east-1 region), it's reasonable that S3 buckets were global because regions didn't really exist yet as a concept. If you look at the
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by kevan 8y ago
These are a great way to create shared understanding with your non-tech business partners when requirements get complicated. My team used these a lot in an e-commerce context where checkout had quirky discount rules. e.g. give 10% off if th
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by kevan 8y ago
>you'll occasionally get 503's from their APIs, so you need to wrap all your calls to them in retries. No matter which cloud platform you're using you should do this[1]. I'm not familiar with the GCP SDK but I know th
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by kevan 8y ago
More context on the big differences in selectivity between colleges: Minnesota used to have "General College"[1] which, by design, admitted every student regardless of qualifications. That was changed in 2005, but the legacy of in
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by kevan 8y ago
I'm not familiar with this space but I'm pretty sure there are hard realtime kernels for linux. I'd hope they're using one.
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by kevan 8y ago
Have multiple diverse interviewers. Calibrate everyone with relatively standard questions by shadowing other interviews. Have everyone write feedback and justify their viewpoint with data from the candidate responses. Make them enter writte

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