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by rdoherty 2y ago
I hate DMs in Slack for this and many reasons. One thing I do try is to ask people to move to a public channel unless it's a personal issue. Copy/paste their question and cc their handle.
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by rdoherty 2y ago
Me too! I did it so I wouldn't take the codebase I'm working on so seriously :)
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Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism(usenix.org)
3 points by rdoherty 2y ago|0 comments
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The Fundamental Forces of Scale(longform.asmartbear.com)
1 points by rdoherty 2y ago|0 comments
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Digital parents giving millions in China a vision of family love they never had(restofworld.org)
2 points by rdoherty 2y ago|0 comments
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by rdoherty 2y ago
Cosmetically maybe, but Hertz has very good incentives to do minimal maintenance and only fix things when very broken. The renter has little incentive to report issues like weird noises or anything mechanically broken, especially if it may
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Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud(tech.ahrefs.com)
5 points by rdoherty 3y ago|1 comments
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Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast(blog.danslimmon.com)
2 points by rdoherty 3y ago|0 comments
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Rivian lays off 10% of workforce as EV pricing pressure mounts(techcrunch.com)
16 points by rdoherty 3y ago|0 comments
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by rdoherty 3y ago
I'm not the OP but a few things: * Reading/fetching the data - usernames, phone number, message, etc. * Generating the content for each message - it might be custom per person * This is using a 3rd party API that might take anywhe
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by rdoherty 3y ago
If you read the article it says exactly why: > In the 1950s and ‘60s, as Hong Kong grew as an industrial hub, many people migrated to the rapidly expanding urban centers for better working opportunities. “It’s hard farming and fishing ou
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by rdoherty 3y ago
At least around me in CA I see folks every day looking at their phones while driving. I believe license requirements and overall driving safety is much higher in Europe vs the US. I have friends from Europe who are shocked at how easy it is
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by rdoherty 3y ago
These are great tips for load testing any web service. Don't forget that you can also saturate memory, disk or network too, so watch those graphs too. I've seen load tests unable to saturate CPU because another resource was limite
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by rdoherty 3y ago
Good on the author, but using a Virtual Private Server skirts very close to not self-hosting. When I read 'self-hosting', I imagined buying/building a physical server and either putting it into a datacenter or running it in y
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by rdoherty 3y ago
That would be really cool! Kinda like Super Paper Mario.
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by rdoherty 3y ago
This reminds me of the book Flatland which is about what a 2 dimensional universe would be like and the experience of a 3 dimensional entity visiting it. Great read! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
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by rdoherty 3y ago
The real learnings of this incident is how to handle incidents effectively. The author cites ones that I use every time I manage one: * Centralize - 1 tracking doc that describes the issue, timeline, what's been tested, who owns the in
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AI convinced our CTO to upgrade our MacBooks(incident.io)
4 points by rdoherty 3y ago|1 comments
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by rdoherty 3y ago
Yeah tbh after working with Ruby for nearly 2 decades now and with a handful of other languages I think Ruby could use some parentheses and other common symbols. It really is too easy to create what are DSLs which requires learning another
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by rdoherty 3y ago
When I was there it was in the low hundreds of thousands. Probably more as growth was still in double digit percentages per year of user base.
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by rdoherty 3y ago
For great sci-fi, definitely review The Hugo Awards (and previous awards) https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/ and the Arthur C Clarke awards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by rdoherty 3y ago
Once your schema changes take more than a few minutes, yes. There's a lot of toil and burden if you need to take down your application every time you need a schema change. Announcements, coordination with internal teams and customers a
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Could a $400k Australian court ruling silence Kiwi Farms?(theguardian.com)
47 points by rdoherty 3y ago|68 comments
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by rdoherty 3y ago
2 months + 1 week per year at LinkedIn. Not good based on my experience with tech layoffs over the past few decades.
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Incident Review: What Comes Up Must First Go Down(honeycomb.io)
1 points by rdoherty 3y ago|0 comments
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Some developers are pushing back against violent video games(economist.com)
2 points by rdoherty 3y ago|1 comments
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by rdoherty 3y ago
Grafana seems to be an option? Handles metrics, logs and traces. I don't know what storage costs look like though if you are self hosting.. https://grafana.com/
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Broken Ownership(blog.alexewerlof.com)
163 points by rdoherty 3y ago|34 comments
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by rdoherty 3y ago
I learned most of this the hard way as a SRE. How systems behave at and over their limits is far more important than how they behave under them. A system that is 'forgiving' (aka resilient) is worth its weight in gold. Otherwise y
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by rdoherty 3y ago
I've been here with this and having logs also emitted by application/web servers is critical too. If you only have it at the gateway, and it emits a 503 or 504, did the request make it to the web server? Maybe? You have no signa

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