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Yeah it's a total hog of attention. At the company I just left, you could walk through our office and 90% of people were just talking on Slack. What a waste of engineering time. We…

It sort of bothers me that the kubeadm logo is just the K8s logo wrapped in the React logo. That said, I’m a big fan of the improvements to the CRD’s. That was a pain point in the …

Posting this here hoping that someone with more knowledge can enlighten me about this. After going down a bit of the rabbit hole, I see that the SR-71's first flight was in 1964. I…

> These interposing network elements, called middleboxes, often unwittingly disallow changes to TCP headers and behavior, even if the server and the client are both willing. There …

"A Manhattan is a Screwdriver but you replace orange juice with bitters, replace vodka with sweet vermouth, and add whiskey." Can't wait to explain this one to my bartender tonight…

This is anecdotal, but I used to work at a large (Fortune 500) financial company. The CEO had no engineering experience, but every year they would do an annual summit of the goals …

Another point I recently heard, and I can't recall the exact quote off my head but it was along the lines of: "Amazon at this point is really just a cloud company that is using it'…

The author states that the talk was inspired by this series of blog posts[1] if you are like me and find articles about technical topics much easier to consume than talks. [1] http…

I still have that on iOS? Never noticed it going away and it’s still there for me. That feature really did take way too long for me to realize although.

Docker has a multitude of benefits for single machine multitenant deployment strategy, namely resource and file system isolation. It also has the benefit of being self documenting …

It's so true. People take these stories as hard truth, when in fact many studies on economics (and social sciences in general) are hard to replicate. [1] 1. https://www.nber.org/pa…

In the article they said that both regions consumed writes and got into an inconsistent state during the process. > This effort was challenging because by this point the West Coast…

I would have to imagine that they have a huge market share of Developer laptops. Unless they are willing to jeopardize all of that or integrate developer first productivity into a …

Freakonomics did a Podcast on this if anyone wants a pretty good listen. I listened and couldn't stop thinking about all of the applications to software in it. freakonomics.com/pod…

This is awesome. I just hacked together a makeshift version of this using a couple watch’s while debugging a deployment issue today. Always so interesting to me when someone takes …

As a precursor, I don't have anything necessarily against the concept of a mainframe. It's just one big shared computer, not too much different than a kube cluster etc. But if ther…

I believe that from the minimal perspective, you are right. I actively lift weights/run though so I try to hit around .75-1g/lb daily for recovery (and vanity) purposes.

This is so true. I used to be consume articles about healthy eating, but it after all the contradiction I have decided that I'm done reading about it all. I keep it simple with the…

I've tried just about every single one and the best one is still the main one. It gets better just about every release similar to VSCode. Not saying it's perfect, but with all of t…

Amdahl's law, for further reading. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

Why? I think that they move on to another service industry job such as customer service or something. I don't think working in a fast food restaurant is building the sort of skills…

While it looks great, for a real noob the real problem (at least when I was starting out this was mine) is fast terminal navigation. To learn to do that I always thought the normal…

Here is a free one I really enjoyed! Goes through the history of networks and a lot of the performance tradeoffs that we must make as engineers. https://hpbn.co/