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Factor13 retweeted
The argument that "we need to use microservices to get hard boundaries between components," is really "we are so undisciplined that we need to add considerable complexity to protect ourselves from ourselves." →
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15 Sep 2022
i think it was the google SRE book where i first heard this rule of thumb -- you can plan to 10x your current state /at best! if you're lucky!/ -- but anything past that that is foolish, pointless conjecture that will bear no resemblance to reality.
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26 Aug 2022
A lame service mesh is the worst. If services can't reliably reach each other, the whole dream of microservices falls apart.
What we did was fail to contain a pandemic when we could have closed borders, done a short, sharp lockdown to isolate and ride out existing infections, vaccinate everyone before variants arose, and then adopt a mask mandate to keep r0 of remaining infections under 1.
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This means that nearly 5% of the working population is compromised at any one time. With variants evading both vaccines and prior immunity, and no mitigation methods in place, people will continue getting reinfected over and over, so no herd immunity will be reached.
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Factor13 retweeted
6 Jul 2022
AOC is the only leader I've heard articulate any sort of plan. I don't agree with her on everything, but at least she has specific ideas and is willing to try to implement them.
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6 Jul 2022
I have never in my adult life felt so detached from my party. Biden seems to have no clue what is going on. Every elected leader seems to have one play and one play only - send contextless emails and texts asking for money. WHAT IS THE PLAN?
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Factor13 retweeted
6 Jul 2022
Every time I think about the Democratic party, I feel angry. We are a country in suffering. A majority of us want change, and the Dems seem absolutely unable to capitalize on that. The most enraging thing - I don't even think they're trying.
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7 Jul 2022
Is this marketing just AI generated at this point? What is a cleanroom for my lakehouse??
7 Jul 2022
Cleanrooms can transform your security posture & open up use cases. But current solutions have their shortcomings.
Until now! Meet data #cleanrooms for the Lakehouse, which enables organizations to share data on any cloud in a privacy-safe way ⬇️
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Factor13 retweeted
28 Jun 2022
Can we acknowledge how ridiculous it is that startups and even individuals can bankrupt themselves...
... with an AWS bill?
I cannot fathom why Amazon does not do anything meaningful to allow setting e.g. limits on accounts. Why do we need to hear stories like this on repeat?
ALT 8.31am. I got a call. We ran up a $65,345 AWS bill without realising. I remember the day vividly. I got woken up by my phone ringing. 'Hello?' It was someone from Amazon. Our card on account had been declined. I knew there was money in the bank, so I said I'd check. I asked for clarification on the amount. '$65,345', they said. My heart sank. Stomach turned. I felt a wave of panic flush over my entire body. I didn't know what to do, so I said let me look into it, and hung up. First I called my Co-Founders, told them to sit down, and let them know the situation. Next, I called our head of engineering at the time, and tried to figure what the hell had happened.
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Factor13 retweeted
16 May 2022
Working at different types of companies - e.g. "traditional" companies, big tech, startups, agencies, finance etc - you realize this:
Different software engineering approaches work better/worse for different companies. There's no one silver bullet across the industry.
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9 Apr 2022
Loyalty is critical in business, but there are different kinds of loyalty. Loyalty to people, loyalty to the business, loyalty to ideas. Know which one you subscribe to, and know what others do. They don’t always mix well.
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31 Mar 2022
This is spot on and applies to individual contributors too. If you are bringing a very senior engineer who only worked at big shops, they will get confused why they can’t hand off as much as they used to.
31 Mar 2022
A major risk at small startups is the culture clash of bringing a manager in who has only worked at the big places from their first job.
There are exceptions, but eg someone with 10 years of Microsoft & Google combined often has trouble when hired to lead at a scrappy scaleup.
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24 Mar 2022
I do sometimes worry, though, that I've gotten too *expensive* for writing a lot of code to be a positive-ROI activity.
24 Mar 2022
You are never too senior to write code. I only laugh at people who believe they are too good to write any code as a software engineer.
Factor13 retweeted
17 Mar 2022
Leaders with highly scheduled, rigid calendars (“sorry, can’t help now, my next opening is 2 weeks out”) make it hard to operate well in a fast-paced environment because their schedule isn’t nimble enough. They are in essence dealing this week with the priorities of 2 weeks ago.
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9 Mar 2022
Every few years I awake from my slumber, look around to see if frontend has become a stable platform, then go back to backend for another few years. These folks are doing great work, but the platform and target are still under so much flux. I miss RoR.
8 Mar 2022
Over the weekend, my team at @stripe converted the company's largest JS codebase from Flow to @typescript. We modified about 3.5 million lines of code, and then hundreds of developers came in Monday morning ready to write TS.
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