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Typically the price of not having horizontal scaling is felt more by the engineers than the users, at first: - Data migrations, schema changes, backfills, backups & restores, etc.,…

As the article says, the vulnerability was fixed in April and the people who discovered it have already been rewarded under Google's Vulnerability Reward Program. Google also proac…

The reasons Vitess didn't have foreign key support historically actually weren't a bold performance tradeoff or anything like that. It was more of a classic, boring, backlog priori…

When I worked at Google back in the day, we used to make dollar bets all the time. You'd tape the signed dollars you won to your monitor. A willingness to take pride in your work a…

If you're not even willing to make a bet for a single signed dollar, that doesn't speak highly to your confidence in your work. It's fine to not be confident, but when professional…

> Obviously not true, in fact none of the companies I worked in that was the case I once offered a bet to the large security team at a well-known decacorn tech company I worked at:…

> A surprising number of systems exhibit this behavior, sadly. I noticed [0, ∞] delivery semantics in a widely-used, internal/homegrown message delivery system at a big tech compan…

JSON is the default serialization format that most JS developers use for most things, not because it's good but because it's simple (or at least seems simple until you start runnin…

While I haven't benchmarked JSON vs protobuf, I've observed that JSON.stringify() can be shockingly inefficient when you have something like a multi-megabyte binary object that's b…

Open Office losing popularity and having a shortage of developers makes some sense to me given all the progress in web-based document editors. Something I have a harder time unders…

> What kind of brave soul wants to trudge through and maintain log4j in their spare time for zero compensation? It's not clear to me as an outsider what exactly the Apache foundati…

I'd be more excited to use GPT to draft a summary of release notes by scanning all the new PRs in a release, summarizing what they are, and dividing them up into categories (bug fi…

> Anything that isn't in the "happy path" of the AdsUI probably gets handled by some engineer making some API calls to a prod API Prior to going private, Twitter would have had rec…

It's been half a year since terra/luna crashed but the name lives on at Nationals Park: https://www.mlb.com/nationals/tickets/premium/nightly/terra-...

With TSLA in the S&P 500 it's difficult to avoid being a shareholder

Class A players don't work for controlling managers who overload them with near impossible targets. Class A players have plenty of options in tech, and have no need to tolerate hav…

SF was never a late night city, but it's become even sleepier in recent years. Some examples: Orphan Andy's, Safeway on Market, and Pinecrest diner are no longer 24/7. Sparky's clo…

Figuring out how to reward simplicity, reliability, and maintainability feels like one of the most important unsolved social/human/economic issues in the software industry. Seems t…

"It may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.... Every constitution then, & every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If …

Note that the product you linked to is larger, much more expensive (it requires a $20-per-month monthly subscription), and has much shorter battery life

I think what people really want is: - SaaS solution, not just open source (improvements to s3, for example) - A global hierarchy of files rather than an assortment of different buc…

There's nothing stopping developers from doing server-side validation before sending markup to clients. It seems like the majority of developers have never really wanted to make th…

The trouble with the term "technical debt" is that people tend to use it retroactively to describe messes which may not have been necessary or the result of an intentional technica…

I don't particularly want to "mess with sandboxes", but I do want my builds to be relatively fast, correct, reproducible, extendable/customizable, with bonus points for being secur…

make(1) has no native support for giving each build rule its own sandboxed view of the filesystem like bazel does. If I could have a wish to upgrade file transformation with make(1…