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by kevan 10y ago
This is a great example of how to perform a successful wind-down. The win for monoculture isn't great for us, but at least they're shutting down gracefully.
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by kevan 10y ago
>737 that has done 2500 starts and landing You can probably add another zero there. 737 airframes don't even need a special inspection and maintenance program until they hit 60,000 takeoff/landing cycles. [1] [1] http:/&#
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by kevan 10y ago
I don't think this issue is gender-specific, it's a problem for retaining everyone.
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by kevan 10y ago
The software field is still very young, and there's lots of things we haven't explored yet. A great example of this exploration is the ongoing evolution of javascript from simple scripts to SPAs and a universal compile target. It
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by kevan 10y ago
Unicorn typically refers to a startup that at one time had a valuation of over $1 billion.
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by kevan 10y ago
The best example I can think of is mobile apps in severely bandwidth-constrained countries. A 10MB vs 50MB APK could make the difference between success and failure because not many people are willing to wait 30m for an app to download.
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by kevan 10y ago
Good UX is important, even for things like scripts. Unfortunately a lot of tech people take pride in working with hard-to-use and error-prone tools.
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by kevan 10y ago
Think of Lambdas like autoscaling containers. If you're operating with decent load, there's a good chance your container will stay up and be reused for multiple requests. But if load drops, your containers might be shut down so th
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by kevan 10y ago
A low-cost first step is enabling cross-region replication [1]. [1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/crr.html
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by kevan 10y ago
Takeoff in a plane isn't a hard engineering problem either, but without checklists even one of the best pilots in the world forgot to unlock his rudder before heading down the runway. [1] Of course no one who cares would intentionally
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by kevan 10y ago
>Such mistakes cannot be made by people who care. That's a very naive assertion. Humans make mistakes, they always have and they always will, no matter how smart they are and how much they care. That's why pilots have checklist
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by kevan 10y ago
It's fine to build your business on someone else's platform as long as you accept that they have a lot of control over your destiny.
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by kevan 10y ago
It's been showing up in my alt tags for a while.
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by kevan 10y ago
It's only objective if the selection process for top conferences is objective. But I do appreciate a metrics-driven system vs the surveys that US News uses.
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by kevan 10y ago
Pretty sure you're being facetious, but yes, each team of SDEs is responsible for their own operations. Reliability Engineer positions do exist, but there doesn't seem to be a company-wide standard job title. There is a group (Ope
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by kevan 10y ago
Lots of great concepts in this book, highly recommended to anyone, not just people going down the SRE track.
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by kevan 10y ago
There's more than just a readme in the repo: https://github.com/riebschlager/linkedin-recruiter-email/blo...
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by kevan 10y ago
The lineage: DockerUI - Created by Michael Crosby, later handed off to me when he got busy at Docker. The goal was to provide parity with the Docker command line, no extra features. UI for Docker - Rename of the same project due to trademar
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by kevan 10y ago
I achieved one of my long-term career goals, getting a job at a Big 4 tech company. In the process I learned that a growth mindset is one of the most powerful assets you can have. I also handed off my pet open source project after taking it
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by kevan 10y ago
Server Side Rendering
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by kevan 10y ago
Amazon Fresh already exists[1], but they deliver instead of you picking it up. [1] https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=Fr_Gr_Sft_Nv1_learnmore?ie=UTF8...
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by kevan 10y ago
I believe it's Revenue Per Sale.
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by kevan 10y ago
Echoing the sentiments of others here, it looks like she's been in startup world for the past few years, maybe she should try working with different types of companies for a while.
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by kevan 10y ago
The author has an entire section on long cycle times (time to make a change, compile/transpile it, and try it out) but it hasn't been nearly as bad for me. The worst case I've experienced was a large Grails app using Babel tr
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by kevan 10y ago
Top of Rack = the network switch that ties the servers on a rack to each other and provides a gateway to the rest of the datacenter.
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by kevan 10y ago
>...and I'm seriously starting to think i18n is a mistake. You don't see value in meeting customers in their own language and culture?
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by kevan 10y ago
Exactly. Availability and partition tolerance are often hard requirements, so we have to do all sorts of gymnastics to deal with eventual consistency. In personal projects where availability isn't a big concern and my most precious res
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by kevan 10y ago
>I can't help wonder if eventually consistent object stores will go the way of NoSQL databases, when a consistent, scalable hierarchical filesystem appears. Of course they will. Eventual consistency is a huge tradeoff that I don&#x2
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by kevan 10y ago
I think the main argument for (distributed) NoSQL as a primary data store is availability, but there's other ways to achieve that too.
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by kevan 10y ago
Developers cause software downtime, but they usually don't cause infrastructure downtime, which is what Chaos Monkey does. Cloud VMs have failure rates somewhere around 1-2% depending on who you ask. This is low enough that you can ign

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