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How Pinterest runs Kafka at scale(medium.com)
9 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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Observability at Scale: Building Uber’s Alerting Ecosystem(eng.uber.com)
2 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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by talonx 8y ago
tldr; - Excellence is qualitative - high performers focus on qualitative, not quantitative - Talent is a useless concept - à la K. Anders Ericsson - Excellence is mundane - "break it down into small, ordinary tasks"
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The Mundanity of Excellence(fermatslibrary.com)
4 points by talonx 8y ago|1 comments
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by talonx 8y ago
Global here refers to the geographical spread of the service, GKE in this case, measured in regions, not the number of services. Edit: I saw your point a bit late. It was limited to GKE, which makes my initial comment about "service&qu
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by talonx 8y ago
On the contrary, it does. They made the transition gradually.
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by talonx 8y ago
2 "global" outages. If it had been limited to a service, or a region, there would be nothing to see.
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by talonx 8y ago
I use the mobile Firefox on stock Android. There are certain issues like emails from Gmail not showing up correctly. But that's a minor pain compared to the adblockers and other features that I can use.
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Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting at Affirm(tech.affirm.com)
2 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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Benchmarking Google BigQuery at Scale(techblog.king.com)
2 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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GNU Kind Communications Guidelines(gnu.org)
1 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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Continuous Integration at Intel for the Mesa Graphics Library(infoq.com)
1 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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Google Cloud Networking Incident #18016(status.cloud.google.com)
3 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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by talonx 8y ago
I have always used RSS. After Google shutdown their Reader, I switched to InoReader. It's a tad slow but much better than alternatives (e.g. Feedly). The reason I prefer RSS is that I need to keep track of a lot of blogs and sites on t
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by talonx 8y ago
I have been a Firefox user for years. I have realized that in spite of it being more open, it is absolutely necessary to keep up to date with what Mozilla is up to. E.g. came across this today - https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-u
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by talonx 8y ago
I think you are missing the whole point of CI. It has nothing to do with detecting if you are a poor coder (though it will do that too). CI catches issues in the working of multiple components together in your app, presumably coded by diffe
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Goku: Building a scalable and high performant time series database system(medium.com)
3 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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by talonx 8y ago
>> Isnt that true for every thing around you? just because your bank is not hacked, does not mean it will not be in future. But if my bank is widely reported to be hacked, my trust in it would degrade. And I would probably not trust
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by talonx 8y ago
Not related to the topic under discussion, but see the media blackout during the Radia Tapes Controversy[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_tapes_controversy#Media_...
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by talonx 8y ago
It _is_ a big problem, because apart from the ones you mentioned above, it is unclear how many more vulnerabilities are possible.
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by talonx 8y ago
On the contrary. This was _investigated_ by a reporter(s) from the mentioned source and published. Other news publications need to verify it independently before publishing it themselves. And on the "official statements" part, it&
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by talonx 8y ago
On the contrary, I find almost every small vendor accepting digital payments. This is from personal experience.
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by talonx 8y ago
From the abstract - "In the development of the new version of the protocol, the IETF TLS Working Group has adopted an ``analysis-prior-to-deployment" design philosophy. This is in sharp contrast to all previous versions of the pr
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An Analysis of the Transport Layer Security Protocol(pure.royalholloway.ac.uk)
2 points by talonx 8y ago|1 comments
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India’s checklist for WhatsApp: Follow Indian laws, setup Indian entity(indianexpress.com)
2 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments
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by talonx 8y ago
I would recommend James Michener's Chesapeake for a graphic account of how the slaves were treated right from the time they were shackled in chains in Africa and made to march hundreds of miles, dying along the way, dying on the voyage
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by talonx 8y ago
Even with such tech being open sourced, the operational overhead of running these at scale, especially in smaller startups, would lead to managed services still being used.
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by talonx 8y ago
Why is this on HN?
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Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study(sciencedaily.com)
131 points by talonx 8y ago|19 comments
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The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math'(theatlantic.com)
2 points by talonx 8y ago|0 comments

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