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Actually one of my coworkers gave a talk at Facebook Performance summit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7Zhd6gLiw (Disclaimer: brief product pitch in the first minute as…

Well, yeah, there's not much difference between a histogram and hundreds-of-percentiles. But there's a huge difference between a histogram and just a single percentile (whether it'…

It's just % of bigrams that appear in Google's sample of books. [1] Not especially meaningful, I admit! [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/info

Tracing and debugging-in-developer are solving different problems, though: tracing is there to help you understand issues that you can't reproduce in development. And for the recor…

Yeah, we were debating about whether I should write a post about "the end of servers" instead of "the end of microservices." I thought we'd get a livelier discussion with microserv…

I wrote the post with pretty rose-colored glasses on. :) I totally agree that microservices can be a form of premature optimization, in particular because of the cost with today's …

A distributed system is one that can fail in new and novel ways

Well maybe the more important part is building "laboratories of democracy" [1] than a republic. ;) Give each part of the org the ability to experiment, see what works best, and spr…

Thanks for the comments! +1 to "APIs necessary for our customers." I think every developer should have a customer-oriented mindset, even if their customers are just other developer…