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by masterj 2y ago
> Single interview, we ask the candidate about *his* CV and what *his* expectations are, what are *his* competences and we ask *him* to show us some code *he* has written You... might want to think about what implicit biases you might be
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by masterj 2y ago
Our heat pump (~2 years old) doesn't seem to have much trouble with -21C, though we rarely get down that low. With frequent temperatures that cold, a combo unit with natural gas backup for the coldest temperatures likely makes a lot of
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by masterj 2y ago
You can also choose to use JSON instead. Works great with curl and browser dev tools.
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by masterj 2y ago
I have had a really good experience with https://connectrpc.com/ so far. Buf is doing some interesting things in this space https://buf.build/docs/ecosystem/
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by masterj 2y ago
You should check out https://connectrpc.com/ It's based on grpc but works a lot better with web tooling
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by masterj 2y ago
The Steam Deck (which I have and love) is also far from a great experience docked, though I'm hopeful that a lot of those edges get ironed out over time. I also wouldn't give my young kids a Steam Deck, but they will definitely be
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by masterj 2y ago
As a data point I started a blog this past year. It’s very technical content, and it’s driven around 100k visits just sharing it in socials https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/ My takeaway has been that I’ve dramatically un
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by masterj 2y ago
There's also https://github.com/CtrlSpice/otel-desktop-viewer
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by masterj 2y ago
One main event per request with a lot of context does not mean that’s the only data you emit. You can emit “normal” log lines too, or use granular log levels, etc. However for understanding how your system or your users are behaving, queryi
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by masterj 2y ago
It is “just” a JSON-formatted log (or any other format really, just a set of keys and values). However the practice of collecting a lot of context per-transaction / unit-of-work and emitting that as one piece of data, storing it in a p
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by masterj 2y ago
It is not written by an observability vendor, nor is it an advertisement. Source: I wrote it and do not work at an observability vendor: https://jeremymorrell.dev/about/ (I wrote it mostly so I could stop re-explaining
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by masterj 2y ago
So is this basically WarpStream except providing a lower-level API instead of jumping straight to Kafka compatibility? An S3-level primitive API for streaming seems really valuable in the long-term if adopted
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On OpenTelemetry and the Value of Standards(jeremymorrell.dev)
2 points by masterj 2y ago|0 comments
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by masterj 2y ago
Yes, my partner is hearing-impaired and I’ve been looking for a tool like this for them
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by masterj 2y ago
Cloudflare workers combined with their queues product https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/ might be a cheap and easy way of solving this problem
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A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events(jeremymorrell.dev)
2 points by masterj 2y ago|0 comments
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by masterj 2y ago
I am surprised I had to scroll down this far to find this. This was deeply upsetting to me
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by masterj 2y ago
If you adopt a wide-column db like Cassandra or DynamoDB, don’t you have to pick a shard for your table? The idea behind Durable Objects seems similar
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by masterj 2y ago
> Durable Objects do not currently change locations after they are created > Dynamic relocation of existing Durable Objects is planned for the future. https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/reference&#x
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by masterj 2y ago
It would be cool if you could run SQL queries against lcoal SQLite or DuckDB instances and generate tables
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OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code(jeremymorrell.dev)
251 points by masterj 2y ago|36 comments
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by masterj 2y ago
> It seems the candidates mostly have experience with loading data from one data source, doing some transformation with no regard for performance, calling APIs, and storing data into another data source. You may not like it, but for the
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by masterj 2y ago
In my experience the people like the OP lead to the opposite of engineering excellence. Engineering is a team sport. Engineering excellence requires teams of people working together. It requires identifying gaps, understanding how they came
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by masterj 2y ago
That "level of incompetence" is pretty much everywhere in society if you look around. Most of it you don't notice because its not your specialty and things mostly work anyway. Find any specialist in any field and they'll
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by masterj 2y ago
I'm at 15 years and have seen my share of "mickeymouse bullshit". Fixing that is the job, both the systems and the underlying human systems that brought it about. It's really easy for stuff to slip through. I find myself
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by masterj 2y ago
This "everyone is incompetent but me!" archetype is pretty common. Think of tradespeople who come in and always complain about the work the previous person did. Fixing these types of problems and putting systems in place so they d
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by masterj 2y ago
There might be some good points buried in this post, but all I get is bitterness without much self-reflection. They seem like they'd be difficult to work with and would blame you for it.
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by masterj 2y ago
Neither of these support indexes afaik. They are designed to do fast scans / computation.
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by masterj 2y ago
> Not quite. 8k of those are motorcycles. 8k are pedestrians. I don't know if you know this, but if a car kills someone else not in a car, they still die. https://twitter.com/VisionZeroYVR/status/1650630980
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by masterj 2y ago
> Is the category of "deaths from speeding" large enough to justify any action whatsoever? Cars kill 40k+ people in the US each year, and speed (really momentum) is a large factor in the lethality of crashes. > Why does the

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