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To be fair, I often listen to Phish and Aphex Twin. Didn’t we all program to jungle in the 90s?

Hi, author here! I’m really disappointed that I wasn’t in the right headspace to name this post “the trick is to surrender to the flow”, the lyric from Phish’s The Lizards. But, yo…

Thanks for the paper link! I'll check it out.

yeah, it's curious. I sometimes ask it why it ignored what is explicitly in its memory and all it can do is apologize. I ask -- I'm using Claude with a 1M context, you have an expl…

…or, I guess Barbara Liskov in 1987, with Argus. And yet, we still seem to debug programs interactively in isolation. Perhaps it’s because all of those systems assumed a system dev…

Microservices require distributed debugging; distributed debugging requires distributed tracing. Just imagine, as I've been trying to push forwards in my own Ph.D. work, that you c…

Academics have tried to make this a reality for years. I suggest revisiting Waldo's "A Note on Distributed Computing" and working forwards from there. If you want to go back furthe…

This is a joke, right? I appreciate a good joke.

> Think that's called Erlang. No, it's not. As someone who programmed Erlang both professionally and published academically at Erlang venues for a long time, no. These optimization…

This is the correct answer. Microservices are a software engineering optimization from the socio-technical perspective primarily. 100%.

I'm also not sure what you mean by the context doesn't propagate between containers and/or pods -- GRPC isn't aware of these Docker/Kubernetes aspects at all. Do you actually mean …

OpenTelemetry's Java implementation does this, but it actually does it in a way that non-GRPC things can access this context as well by ensuring that it propagates throughout both …

I should be clear (as both someone who experienced this and as someone who has been involved in MS/Ph.D admissions): Brown University admitted me as a "special student" and allowed…

I went to Community College of Rhode Island (00 - 05) and I enjoyed it quite a bit and felt, while I had some weird and unnecessary courses, I actually learned quite a bit. I recom…

For sure, the algorithm changes that we made we believe work across all languages; they are inherent to the architecture of microservice applications and not specific to a particul…

Primary author of Filibuster here, happy to answer any questions you may have.

I laughed out loud, so I appreciate the comment.

A bit of a shameless plug here, but I'm a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D. in Software Engineering) and my thesis is on the resilience of microservice application…