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Two years after writing A Pipeline Made of Airbags, I ended up prototyping a minimal way to do hot code loading from kubernetes instances by using generic images and using a sideca…

I'm not quite sure how Erlang's world is totalizing. It has ways to ship things in a very integrated manner, but I have shipped and operated Erlang software that was containerized …

I tried it with Erlang. Their "Sample Code 2" does not generate working code (lowercase variable assignments), and their "Sample Code 3" does not even generate valid syntax, flat o…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425298 for a response, since this is a duplicate. TL:DR; I had never seen it and had no idea it was possible because I don't recall seein…

You're right. After all these years (and even writing a book that had Elixir snippets in it) I had never seen a single example showing it was possible and did not know it could do …

The Erlang 'maybe' expression expands on what 'with' allows in Elixir, mostly because the 'with' construct allows a list of conditional patterns and then a general 'do' block, wher…

So this disagreement is an interesting example of error being a construction in itself: I will posit that you are wrong or not interpreting my point of view properly, and you will …

Well if all you have is bugs but you never look into how they get there and how they happen, you’re not going to improve your process or tools much. Also blame and accountability a…

Fixing the bug does not necessarily fix anything else it caused though, and none of the questions in my post are answered by “fix it”. Here’s another one: should the incident actua…

To illustrate the point, let's imagine that 5 years ago, a driver in the linux kernel was written in such a way that interplay with a new disk drive could corrupt data when power f…

I'm aware of this. I'm living in a place where power is over 99% renewable and makes use of no gas for utilities, work from home and drive fewer than 5,000km/y as a household, and …

Because that 60% from coal is more or less shared across everyone, but flights are, on the global scale, a luxury item. In many cases, taking a transatlantic flight emits more CO2 …

Generally this is going to be true of newer experiences that offer a shift in perspectives.

as one of the rebar3 co-authors, you'd have gotten rebar3 regardless of hex: we couldn't use the packages in there, and there were no packages that existed. We even entirely broke …

I think it's a problem of "not being the tech of choice". Obscure languages have a higher cost in that you can't just out-source the work of training people to the rest of the indu…

Some services may require gigabytes of state to be downloaded to work with acceptable latency on local decisions, and that state is replicated in a way that is constantly updated. …

Author here. For the first system, it was deprecated without replacement, and just let to run by managers and people who had moved on to other teams (but used to work on it) who di…

1. You always need people that understand the system. Not everyone and not all of it, but you want that overall, people are able to understand and figure out what is going on. You …

The so-called cancel culture is not new, and the people complaining about it were generally fine with its presence (along with the presence of systemic injustice) as long as it was…

Mob justice hasn't been visible for a while often because regular justice was being used for direct oppression in its stead. Injustice is institutionalized, and so as long as the m…