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And started their career as a sysadmin. I don't know Dana at all, but some of the best kernel and networking people I've met got their start as sysadmins.

Somewhat unrelated, but the number of times I have invoked Ableton as a metaphor of challenging the status quo is quite high. I was a Cubase user before Ableton showed up and compl…

Saw him play many times across multiple genres across 3+ decades from straight up classical to world music to electronica/tablatronics. Unfortunately never got to see him perform w…

Kris and I got to know each other a bit over the years. I still remember our first meeting vividly. We met for dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Capitol Hill and spent the evening …

I've had a Tesla (Model S) since early 2020 and once the initial allure wore offI've missed driving a BMW and once the i5 is here I'll be backing to driving BMW. The supercharger n…

I used to use a phone as my backup camera when I was out doing bird photography. After a while I gave up. In variable light and high dynamic range conditions phones just don’t hold…

I sold all my DSLRs over the past 18 months and jumped into the deep end. The lens systems are better, the cameras are better. I love having a histogram in the viewfinder. There's …

I have a 9 year old who’s learning all about synths via a combination of the synths in garage band and my OP1. Great combo IMO

I’ve been a long time Spotify user but the difference in quality is very perceptible (to me at least) and I find myself using Apple Music a lot more.

lukehoban says it best in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28711903 where he talks about the three things CloudFormation provides. The Cloud Control API is an API to the resour…

That's not correct. There were Principal and higher engineers 13 years ago when I joined. 5 years ago, just EC2 had a fairly large number.

Amazon has long had a VP-level engineer track (Peter Vosshall was the first IIRC). Colm is very rightly one.

Haven't looked in any detail, but as I clicked around the thing that jumped out at me was how many in the "lower comp, higher returns" category were from healthcare/biotech. Wonder…

I suspect that’s what you meant but just for clarity, Instance storage does persist for reboots (which is effectively an OS reboot), but not if you stop/start (or terminate) the in…

You need to take into account the speed of light in fiber optics and switching latency. For fiber you're looking at about 5 µs/km

This video was shot in 2016 (at EC2s 10 year anniversary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gk_I_0eMDA ... almost all of the folks in this video are still there.

That makes sense. Thanks a ton

Firecracker, Bottlerocket :). On Fargate, you got the answer there.

Always. I just wanted to do it before msw :)

I am from AWS. Could we please change the title to say “Bottlerocket from AWS“. Like Firecracker [1] it’s explicitly not AWS branded. 1. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/fire…

This just got released. It’s a living source authored by senior engineers at Amazon and covers some of the best practices that we use at Amazon.

That is correct. Three lines, one for each processor type.

That's correct. The same commit allows you to run workloads across EC2 and Fargate (note that the discounting is different).