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Process is useful for raising the lowest deliveries quality, for making former-unknowns into knowns, and for preventing misaligned behavior when culture alone becomes insufficient.…

And you could write a similar blog post about why Google "failed" at AI productization (at least as of a year ago). For some of the same and some completely different reasons. - tw…

It was in the early days of Kubernetes and long since fixed. I don't recall the precise details, but it was likely the first official CVE we published: https://kubernetes.io/docs/r…

The code in question reminds me a lot of my favorite Kubernetes bug: if (request.authenticationData) { ok := validate(etc); if (!ok) { return authenticationFailure; } } Turns out t…

As far as I could tell, its main goal was to have fun writing an OS. At that, it seems to have succeeded for a number of the people involved? In terms of impact or business case, I…

Clearly the next step after building your own CPU and SOC is to start Apple Foundry and become totally vertically integrated?

Also a myth for GCE. From a technical perspective, App Engine and Compute Engine were built on top of internal infrastructure (borg), but did not expose borg directly. And there we…

If Netflix were working correctly and could handle the load, you'd absolutely be correct. But it does seem the capacity of a hybrid system of Netflix servers plus P2P would be stri…

Yes, the properties about scaling do hold even with near-real-time streams. [1] The problems with using it as part of a distributed service have more to do with asymmetric connecti…

J. Shallit (2003). "What this country needs is an 18c piece" (PDF). Mathematical Intelligencer. 25 (2): 20–23.

Willow appears closer to a "Protocol Construction Kit" than a protocol itself. As a construction kit, it has value for people who want to make protocols where they'll control both …

Maybe interesting aside: I saw a link to this when it was first published at the height of the p2p networks craze and noticed some similarities between the two. One of my students …

I get that, but IMO it's not an issue. On one shard you can't use more than base CPU, so there's no advantage to a subscription there. Other optional shards are almost entirely peo…

Look at Screeps: World [0] for depth in a programming base-builder RTS. You write the code for each of your units, either natively in Javascript or Typescript, or via WASM you can …

See also Chris Lema's "Done Done" essays[0] and book[1] for more about the value of taking things to finished. [0]: https://chrislema.com/a-done-done-culture-habit-one/ [1]: https:…

> if the goal was to simplify things, then I'm not sure how successful they were at that. Maybe if they have other goals that are tradeoffs vs. simplicity, then it's more understan…

> I don't use any networking sites such as LinkedIn etc Reconsider that. You can try to add everyone you remember from previous companies or school, and you'll be more available to…

It does seem like network configuration remains rather manual compared to other large scale systems that include more automation. In Microsoft's case, the remediation is not to put…

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Perfectionism is too short a label, and could be one or many of multiple underlying issues. Ultimately, you seem aware of the tendency, so ask yourself: why can't I do "good enough…

For a decent take on that organizational deficiency, Rickover wrote a 1.5 page memo in 1953 addressing similar issues for the nuclear US Navy. At some point, it's a failing of proc…

Something similar is one reason early Kubernetes was successful: many of the core people in the project were in an irc/slack channel available for anyone with questions. That direc…

Choose. What you happen to be feeling at the moment can control you, or not. See e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=discipline+is+freedom