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A Tiny Tool for Collecting Website Response Time Statistics(hachibu.net)
2 points by ntietz 4y ago|0 comments
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Rick Wolter: from prison to software developer, building Underdog Devs community(views.substack.com)
1 points by ntietz 4y ago|0 comments
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by ntietz 4y ago
I have successfully ordered and received parts from McMaster-Carr as an individual. I'm not sure if this is a super variable experience or if it has changed over time (I first ordered from them in 2020).
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by ntietz 4y ago
My understanding is that it's often used as an incentive to get folks to sign NDAs or other agreements on the way out the door. Especially important to them when someone was forced out in less than ideal circumstances, so they'll
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by ntietz 5y ago
https://ntietz.com/ Mostly just has my (tech-focused) blog, although there are aspirational placeholders for the important things in life, like coffee and homemade pizza. It has been hard to make time to write personal blog
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by ntietz 5y ago
Please do share! I would be interested in seeing it and doing something similar (and use podman for the same reason).
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by ntietz 5y ago
We did consider sharding PostgreSQL and opted for something that would be fully managed for us to minimize our management overhead. Managing sharded databases can be complicated business and that wasn't something we wanted to take on i
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by ntietz 5y ago
I dug back through our design docs from when we designed this, and we largely chose not to use Cloud Spanner due to unknowns. We were more confident we could predict the read and write performance in BigTable (especially due to the constrai
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Breaking Through Scaling Barriers with Bigtable(remesh.blog)
41 points by ntietz 5y ago|20 comments
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Breaking the Rules with Stateful Services(remesh.blog)
3 points by ntietz 5y ago|1 comments
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by ntietz 5y ago
I mean, it depends on criticality. If something is critical, pushing further along the formal methods spectrum makes sense (see also: why AWS has done a lot with TLA+). Sure, we probably won’t verify all of Instagram, but super critical por
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by ntietz 5y ago
There’s a spectrum of formal methods and with the push toward static types in Python coming directly out of industry I would argue that industry is definitely deeming it important in some degree; the question is to what degree. Right now a
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by ntietz 5y ago
Yes! The blockchain community is doing a lot of cool stuff here and it’s definitely an area where it’s worth it even with less than ideal tools.
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Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods(ntietz.com)
139 points by ntietz 5y ago|131 comments
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by ntietz 5y ago
> When all the software companies went full remote, they just took a break from hiring juniors (!). This isn’t true at all. Where I work, we hired more junior engineers than ever before during the pandemic. We were hybrid colocated/
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by ntietz 5y ago
This is often a requirement of grocery stores where they intend to sell it, who don’t want to have stock that isn’t salable after two weeks (it can take the big groceries longer than that to just distribute it to their stores).
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Drawbacks of Developing in Containers(ntietz.com)
26 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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RISC-V Summit 2020 The Next Ten Years [video](youtube.com)
6 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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Lessons from my first (bad) on-call experience(ntietz.com)
1 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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Load testing is hard and the tools are not great(ntietz.com)
135 points by ntietz 6y ago|52 comments
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by ntietz 6y ago
What's Verizon's "policy-wall"?
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Working with people who are smart(er than you)(remesh.blog)
1 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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What's “good” code and does it matter?(ntietz.com)
1 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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Learning to Love Idioms(remesh.blog)
1 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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by ntietz 6y ago
C Corps definitely have a lot of fees, and if you have a lawyer or anyone involved, it's expensive, too. The thing is that it's kind of hard to generalize about this in the US, because business formation laws vary so widely by sta
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The Tao of Language Agnosticism(remesh.blog)
5 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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The Cycle of AI in Product Development(remesh.blog)
2 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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Refactor vs. Rewrite(remesh.blog)
198 points by ntietz 6y ago|118 comments
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Anarchists, Mercenaries, Farmers, and Ranchers: Engineering Teams at Startups(remesh.blog)
1 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments
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Parallel assignment: a misunderstood Python idiom(ntietz.com)
4 points by ntietz 6y ago|0 comments

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