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So tired of these AI generated articles.

Major lesson from when I worked on Google Search indexing is that queues have a lot of hidden complexity and can make your outages much longer than they need to be. We had a big pr…

Would be nice if the timeline matched up with the text of the blog post (missing "HackerOne provides disclosure guidance").

Interesting. We run pgbouncer via kubernetes so it was straightforward to make multiple pgbouncer processes on one machine. Also straightforward to get them running on multiple mac…

Don't reboot the db during your next outage.

It's highly unlikely that GCP banning their account without telling them is true, but GCP is probably not going to go public with the real reason.

Yup...

We run 1000s of machines in Azure. It's garbage. Very few features work. Nodes are always having strange issues, especially on the networking side. And the worst part is that Azure…

> At some point, you will have many teams. And one of them _will not_ be able to validate and accept some upgrade. Maybe a regression causes something only they use to break. Now t…

Big shoutout to Amin and Sacha for keeping this going!

Front Door is not good.

What's the most difficult part of distributed stream processing?

It was low. I got a bump to 90k that year, then 130k when I jumped companies, which I thought was a mind boggling amount. Do entry level devs even get out of bed for $130k these da…

My first programming job in SF paid $60k/year 10 years ago. I'd like to thank big tech for driving salaries up.

On the flip side, my baby likes the small loud airplanes. He points at them and says "oooh!"

Hi Chad!

I was vegan for 7 years, one of my vegan friends had the opinion that human hospitals should be banned and only animal hospitals should be allowed.

Infra teams like it, app devs don't like it.

We did that at Dropbox in Python for a while. Though they switched to async after I left.

At Google, they found that engineers L5 and above got more work done with RTO, and engineers at L4 and below got significantly less work done. WFH is great but it doesn't work for …

We use Python to generate these configs at my work. Ends up working out pretty well. I previously worked on the biggest deployment of gcl (the inspiration for KCL, Jsonnet) at Goog…

Nobody thought Instagram and WhatsApp were good acquisitions at the time.

By health check, do you mean the kubernetes liveness check? Does that make kube try to kill or restart your container?

> When using Cloudflare Workers as an API server, I have experienced requests that would “fail silently” and leave a “hanging connection”, with no error thrown, no log emitted, and…

Reminds me of gcl (yikes).