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There's an active incident tracking this: https://status.claude.com/incidents/g613ntyj2pwf

Thanks for sharing your report, it's frustrating to see things like this break in minor patch updates. Small tip for GitHub Gist: set the file format to markdown (give it a .md ext…

The important quote from the timeline: Mar 01 9:41 AM PST We want to provide some additional information on the power issue in a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region…

Here is something that gets lost in all the excitement about AI productivity: most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code. I think there's a big split b…

The actual decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf

Absolutely agree and likewise buddy :)

Oh hey Curt!! Remember, you are not a monitoring system :)

Yep, that team did great work. I remember having lunch at the Heroku office with the dotCloud team in 2011 or 2012 and also Solomon Hykes demoing Docker to us in our office’s basem…

As somebody whose first day working at Heroku was the day this acquisition closed, I think it’s mostly a misconception to blame Salesforce for Heroku’s stagnation and eventual irre…

You'll need to unlock your iPhone first. Even though you're staring at the screen and just asked me to do something, and you saw the unlocked icon at the top of your screen before/…

No, I don't think so. Oban does not rely on a large volume of NOTIFY in order to process a large volume of jobs. The insert notifications are simply a latency optimization for lowe…

This is largely because LISTEN/NOTIFY has an implementation which uses a global lock. At high volume this obviously breaks down: https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-d…

Yeah, River generally recommends this pattern as well (River co-author here :) To get the benefits of transactional enqueueing you generally need to commit the jobs transactionally…

I get the temptation to attribute the popularity of these systems to lazy police with nothing better to do, but from personal experience there’s more to it. I live in a medium size…

Aaron did RT the post here which likely indicates some agreement with the sentiment in it: https://x.com/searls/status/1972293469193351558 Also he shared it directly while saying i…

Take my money! I have been looking for a good way to get Claude to stop telling me I'm right in every damn reply. There must be people who actually enjoy this "personality" but I'm…

As one of River's creators, I'm aware of many companies using it, including names you've heard of :) One cool open source project I've seen recently is this open source pager / on-…

Modern Postgres in particular can take you really far with this mindset. There are tons of use cases where you can use it for pretty much everything, including as a fairly high thr…

Definitely not! Jobs in River are enqueued and fetched by worker clients transactionally, but the jobs themselves execute outside a transaction. I’m guessing you’re aware of the ri…

You can get pretty high job throughput while maintaining transactional integrity, but maybe not with Ruby and ActiveRecord :) https://riverqueue.com/docs/benchmarks That River exam…

Ah, so that issue is specifically related to a statistics/count query used by the UI and not by River itself. I think it's something we'll build a more efficient solution for in th…

Developer of River here ( https://riverqueue.com ). I'm curious if you ran into actual performance limitations based on specific testing and use cases, or if it's more of a hypothe…

Hah, I agree, "easier" is too soft :)