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Hallelujah.

Thanks for the pointer to SLOs; I've read more than a few posts about them but it never clicked, will look more closely. My point, I think, is still that the overwhelming focus of …

I have some thoughts here. I work for a startup; we have what I think is a fairly typical setup: metrics ingested from a variety of sources, fed into industry-standard metrics/dash…

We stumbled across much the same thing building out a query layer of composable join clauses. In previous efforts at something similar, I've used CTEs, but found the ergonomics wor…

Basically, I reached out to existing relationships. A few had needs I could fill. A few referred me to others.

I'm not sure about "without changing code" but I have definitely seen the believe that Figma represents something authoritative about the product instead of, say, the product being…

I laughed hard at the IV part.

That was my first thought as well.

QA should exist. QA should not be forced into an engineering or automation track because the incentives are wrong. You end up with test code becoming the goal and then it usually r…

I get excited because I went to school with one of Vaughan Jones' children and was (and still am) into math and was blown away when I understood that he was significant.

Years and years ago (pre-smart phone), I built a mobile map and navigation product. Labeling streets was one of the more interesting side quests and the solution I found took a sim…

Thanks. I've been meaning to write one of these for a long time, but you went into detail in a very effective, organized way. I also reached a lot of similar decisions and challeng…

I can't speak to the accuracy, but I just integrated stripe's offering for our product (which involves banking). We were small enough for a while not to need it, but eventually the…

I like the idea but I think it's going to be hard to put this particular genie back in the bottle. As an engineering leader, I prefer low fidelity designs early on, but practically…

I feel this way now, but with companies.

I started in this industry before cloud was a thing. I did most of the things RDS does the hard way (except being able to dynamically increase memory on a running instance, that's …

Meh. The end of the company many of us admire was a combination of the founders giving up control to the usual villains and the venture business model failing for developer tools. …

You're not wrong, but a) most of the badness happened after the founders checked out and b) it's hard to find examples of developer tool companies doing better.

We're paying for pyx. Wouldn't have if we didn't enjoy enjoy uv and ruff. It's definitely a narrow path for them to tread. Feels like the best case is something like Hashicorp, gre…

I assume they want us to pay for their orchestration and also push customers back to using their compute so everything is stickier. But nothing they've done in the last few years h…

I see: a page offering something interesting but vague. If you tell me more, I might sign up. If I have to create an account first, I'm walking away.

It looks a lot like a CloudFront error we randomly saw today from one of our engineers in South America. I suspect there was a small outage in AWS but can't prove it.

I agree. I find LLMs a bit overblown. I don't think most people want to use chat as their primary interface. But writing a few agents was incredibly informative.

As an engineer, I like this framework but can think of approximately zero PMs who could use it to build a product.

Bartleby was right.