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Reliability: It's Not Great

The last four months have been rough. We’ve had more issues than we’re OK with. I’ve hesitated to share this because, well, I’m fighting a debilitating feeling of failure. Fear, too. If we don’t improve, our company ceases to exist, and I really like working on this company. One interesting problem we have is that we’ve exploded in popularity. It sounds like a good problem to have! But we’ve pushed the platform past what it was originally built to do. We’ve put a lot of work and resources into...
Saved on: 2023-03-07

What does POSIX conformance/compliance mean in the distributed systems worl

Answer (1 of 4): When I hear people refer to POSIX, they almost always mean the "File and Directory Operations" portion of the standard(s). Then again, I'm a filesystem developer. If I worked on schedulers (for example) I might hear more about different sections, but I'll try to stick with the ...
Saved on: 2023-02-08

Taylor Otwell (@taylorotwell) on X

Pound for pound probably the best book I’ve read… check out the “Art Of Living” edition.
Saved on: 2019-12-30

Ask A Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo | Y Combinator

I’m the moderator for our Ask A Female Engineer series, and a female engineer on the software team at YC. This is the sixth installment in a series where we ask female engineers questions and share their candid, anonymous responses. In this post, we did something a bit different: we asked engineers to answer questions about the recent memo by former Google engineer James Damore. The engineers responding to these questions were given pseudonyms, and those pseudonyms are consistent through the se
Saved on: 2017-08-16

Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?

Michael Wolfe's answer: Let's take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit our friends in Newport Beach. I'll whip out my map and draw our route down the coast: The line is about 400 miles long; we can walk 4 miles per hour for 10 hours per day, so we'll be there in 10 da...
Saved on: 2017-06-14

Website Stalking - Uprising – Treviso JS – Medium

Come probabilmente molti di voi fanno, anche io quando mi imbatto in un sito web che considero d’impatto, non resisto alla tentazione di spulciarne il codice. Mi affascina l’idea di scoprire con…
Saved on: 2016-12-14
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