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Let's hope the investors have a break (through)

It shows. They use all those spare brain tokens testing the product behaves correctly, right? Right?!

Fantastic software that I've used for over a decade. Interacted with Karl a few years ago about Adobe's AMF format; very generous with his time. I was surprised to learn that it's …

> Amazon does not use relational databases This is false, at least in my very thin exposure to the company: I interviewed for a team last year which was maintaining EC2 SSH keys us…

Can you elaborate on how you're storing this data?

Worked for an eCom store for 3 years, was on-call 24/7 for most of it due to understaffing. In this context, every second of downtime was actual money being lost. CEO drilled in th…

Galaxy brain business model: shame the app developers and offer a tool to help them fix their mistakes.

Perhaps it's less about billing and more about disincentivizing excessive use? Even if the service is free, it's not infinite and is ultimately a shared resource that should not be…

memcached has recently gained the ability to spill to disk: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Extstore we recently implemented this to grow our caches to >50TB

Nothing interesting to add, just an anecdote. As someone based in a semi-rural part of South Africa, this dual cable break was a huge PITA for a few days. Latencies went through th…

Joburg native here, moved away about 12 years ago. I still have people there, and every time I go visit its in an even worse state of disrepair; quite upsetting.

I found it very useful, thanks!

This is addressed in one of the linked tweets.

Very accurate! Just 10 points off my chess.com rating. Although, there was an unfortunate bug... I couldn't promote a pawn, and that severely impacted the endgame. I'm on mobile Br…

It replaces no other projects. Continuous profiling solves a different problem to Mimir, Cortex, and Tempo. Mimir and Cortex are for metrics, Tempo is for distributed tracing, Phla…