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Disclaimer: I work at AWS, primarily in the compute space, but I'm not speaking in an official capacity. I would say they fulfill different purposes. The SSM agent has quite a bit …

Disclaimer: I work at AWS, primarily in the compute space, but I'm not speaking in an official capacity. As fguerraz mentioned, modern AWS instance families are basically all power…

>Maybe Amazon is doing something similar? Yep! https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/sustainab... Disclaimer: Amazon employee, not speaking on behalf of the company, j…

Disclaimer: I work at AWS, totally different team, and had never heard of this product until this announcement. This is 100% my personal opinion and I'm not operating in any offici…

Market, and point in the career. If you've got 15-20 years of experience and you've never stayed somewhere more than 12-18 months, it's a very different scenario than someone with …

It depends on the company and their needs. In the majority of cases, I would say this is a positive thing for your resume. If their goal is to hire someone for a specific position …

This matches my experiences, and I'm certainly no Distinguished Engineer, but as a PE I would still have relatively few options to work at a similar level and compensation if I was…

Disclaimer: I work at AWS on an unrelated team. I was not involved in development of this product. Opinions stated are my own, and not necessarily a reflection of my employer. Noth…

Disclaimer: I work at AWS, but this post isn't being made in any sort of official capacity, I have no relation to the team in question (this is the first I've even heard of the ser…

High performance networking: https://www.iovisor.org/technology/xdp Cloudflare uses XDP for a variety of things: https://blog.cloudflare.com/xdpcap/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/l4d…

I feel like a unique ID isn't enough to protect your identity from an analytics provider, especially if they're receiving analytics on you from multiple sources.

> The reality of the 6-pager in 2019 is that it has become boilerplate where style overwhelms substance. I can't say I agree. I'm in the middle of a 6-pager, and the overwhelming m…

It's not strong enough to overcome the forces keeping us together. But that might not be the case for forever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip

A decent amount of countries offer point based immigration visas, where a degree certainly helps, but is not a hard requirement. For example, Japan's Highly Skilled Worker visa can…

>I'm forced to wonder whether the same strain of yeast also survived on the surface near the original brewery location Maybe something similar to it. Commercial breweries were sele…

I've read a dozen or so articles on this (It's been a somewhat popular discussion on several homebrewing communities focused on using interesting/rare/"alternative" yeasts), and th…

You can also get VTune as part of System Studio through a 90 day perpetually renewable community support license - https://software.intel.com/en-us/system-studio/choose-downlo... N…

>Rovelli's position is that time is not fundamental, not that it does not exist. It emerges from something more fundamental. Well, I'm a layperson, and I'm guessing you are a physi…

> Everyone in the same reference frame (or close enough) is going to agree about the order of events Not necessarily. On a macro scale for general human interactions, for the most …

> It is perfectly okay to say something is happening at 1 million light years away. Well, maybe. Maybe not. Carlo Rovelli would argue that time doesn't exist like that (or at all) …

The 3 years/10^18 figures I used were taken from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.2821.pdf : "Using the largest allowed value for the photon mass from other experiments, we find a lower …

Yep. Time still passes for photons, but, at a rate so insanely slow in comparison to how we view it. 10^18 years by our perspective would only be 3 years by the perspective of some…

Active FAANG employee here, so a bit of my take on it. Personal opinion, of course, and not any sort of official Amazon statement. Management DOES do a lot to prioritize/delegate/l…

For now they are, and that might hold true in the future as well. There are some projects to bring BPF features needed (generally called eBPF) to FreeBSD, such as https://github.co…