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by yashap 6y ago
Yeah, Amazon is a massive target for hackers, but hasn’t had any particularly bad breaches that I can remember. I’m sure their security/privacy is far from perfect, but it seems to be pretty effective. FWIW I’ve never worked for Amazon
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by yashap 6y ago
You can distinguish between them in your response body. A simple error response body for a JSON-oriented REST API is often something like a JSON object with a human-readable error message, and a unique code for that type of error. i.e. {“me
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by yashap 6y ago
No problem! And agreed, the advice on “alert on symptoms users actually experience, and only on things a human actually has to deal with” is great advice. Alerts that don’t fit this should be quickly tweaked or disabled, to avoid alert fat
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by yashap 6y ago
One of the links is to Google’s Sight Reliability Workbook ( https://sre.google/workbook/table-of-contents/ ). At my last company, we implemented SLOs based on the advice in this workbook, and I thought it was an ex
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by yashap 6y ago
I took a sort-of similar route. I was a Senior Data Analyst who loved to code, and managed to transition to Junior Software Developer. I’ve stayed hungry and constantly improved as a dev, and over the years have incrementally moved up to my
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by yashap 6y ago
From his Wikipedia page: > He was high school valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar, and a Silver Knight Award winner in 1982. > ... In 1986, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a 4.2 GPA and a Bachelor of
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by yashap 6y ago
I haven’t read the study, but that certainly seems believable and reasonable to me.
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by yashap 6y ago
I don’t disagree that he is/was super smart (and hardworking), but he came from a fairly wealthy family too. When he was starting Amazon, his parents invested $300,000 to help get it off the ground. You don’t have $300K to pour into yo
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by yashap 6y ago
It’s extremely app-dependent. For example, lots of heavy analytics, data crunching type apps can easily have multi-second (or longer) backend requests. For these, the BE tends to dominate perf issues. However, for your standard CRUD type ap
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by yashap 6y ago
Yeah, at the moment companies are pretty free to refuse service like this, based on their own policies, but I think there’s a decent argument for a legal framework. The biggest tech companies are indeed a core place that communication happe
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by yashap 6y ago
Amazon’s main argument seems to be that they’ve been asking Parler to remove overt calls to violence since mid/late November, but Parler have refused. While Twitter does moderate this sort of thing, especially when asked to do so. I be
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by yashap 6y ago
I know it’s cliche to blame the internet, but ... the internet is a big factor. Previously, there were only a handful of big media outlets that everyone read/watched, they kept decently to journalistic integrity principles, and made so
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by yashap 6y ago
Yeah, I have a friend who got similarly addicted to WoW during undergrad, and dropped out. I also have a friend who dropped out of high school for games, but it worked out! He became a fairly high end professional Counter-Strike player, mov
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by yashap 6y ago
Total tangent, but Malcolm Gladwell has two really excellent podcast episodes about memory (Revisionist History, season 3, episodes 3 and 4: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/23-a-polite-word-for-... ). Basically,
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by yashap 6y ago
FarmVille launched June 2009, so it probably wasn’t 2008 :) But yeah, video game addiction is a real thing, I know lots of people who’ve been addicted to all sorts of games, to the detriment of their lives overall.
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by yashap 6y ago
Yeah, I think those themes are all individually common in sci-fi, it’s more the combo of all of them together that made me feel there was significant inspiration. But as I said, I’ve only seen the movies, and am going on 2nd hand accounts t
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by yashap 6y ago
I’ve only seen the movies, but my understanding is that they reasonably closely reflect the books, at least in terms of major themes and plot points. Based on timelines, my guess is that Chiang’s novella was inspired by Sagan’s novel. The s
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by yashap 6y ago
Yes, that’s the movie, and I think it’s worth watching. To compare it to a more modern movie, I think Arrival was inspired a fair bit by Contact. If Arrival is up your alley, you’ll probably like Contact too.
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by yashap 6y ago
So, I’m an experienced backend dev, who only occasionally dabbles in frontend. And whenever I do, my CSS experience is basically: https://media1.giphy.com/media/13FrpeVH09Zrb2/giphy.gif I’d like to fix that, and l
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by yashap 6y ago
As others have noted, seems reasonably similar to LiveView, Livewire and Blazor. I’m somewhat bullish on these approaches - server side rendered monoliths (Rails, Django, etc.) are SO productive, at least for the first few years of developm
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by yashap 6y ago
Agreed, they’re definitely a “stand on the strength of our products” company. IntelliJ IDEA is not just the best IDE I’ve ever used, it’s one of the best software products I’ve used, period. Also, they’ve got a great open source license pro
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by yashap 6y ago
I’m 100% with you. We’ve implemented a GraphQL gateway to our REST APIs at my company, and IMO it’s been a tremendous waste of time. Tonnes of complexity, performance issues, time writing the server, monitoring problems when calls are no lo
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by yashap 6y ago
I think Amazon take it less seriously than some of the others. For Netflix, streaming is their entire business. For Disney, HBO and Hulu, it’s the future - they’d probably rather stick with the old school cable TV, movie theatres, etc. mode
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by yashap 6y ago
Indeed. Also, Google’s revenue is about $300K per minute. The value they provide is likely higher than that, but as you said, being able to send an email an hour later than you hoped it’s fine in most cases. Also, Google Search was fine, an
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by yashap 6y ago
I like K8s too, especially for a service oriented architecture, but there’s tonnes of other deployment targets out there. I’d bet the overall percentage of server side software running on K8s is in the single digits, thought that’s a pure w
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by yashap 6y ago
Even server side, not everyone uses Docker. If you’re deploying to EC2, in house hardware, whatever, a single executable is simpler. And even if you’re building a Docker image, building the image itself is still a bit simpler - just pop the
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by yashap 6y ago
May want to edit your post - I believe you meant 300K QPS, not 300 QPS :) But yeah, that’s very impressive to handle that much load without sharding! Though it is a cluster of 12 instances, each with 96 CPUs and 614 GB RAM - those are some
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by yashap 6y ago
> Today, we serve 2.3 million QPS at peak. 2M of those queries are reads and 300K are writes. Damn, even for a service as popular as Slack, that’s significantly more than I expected. Slack has ~12-13 mil DAUs, right? I assume at peak tim
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by yashap 6y ago
IMO, all software should be like this. If you’re inactive for X time, they send an email letting you know your account, and all associated data, will be deleted if you don’t log back in. Probably sending a few such emails to be safe, but en
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by yashap 6y ago
It’s become the go-to load testing tool at my company. Personally I’ve only used it lightly, and enjoyed the experience. And others at my company who do heavy load testing rave about it.

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