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"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. …

> Just as dashmap is a replacement for std::sync::RwLock , whirlwind aims to be a replacement for tokio::sync::RwLock . I'm curious about the practical benefits of handling a HashM…

While I think civo are doing some pretty novel things to allow kubernetes to run cheaply for small clusters, it’s a mistake to take a vendor’s “report” at face value. It’s a press …

Dan Price is a grifter who posts things like this in bad faith. Don’t engage.

Betteridge’s law applies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

Ah hah! Indeed I’m most familiar with musl in a static linking context. Thanks for the clarification

> Which feels safer to you? “Feels” being the operative word… alpine is statically linking all of the same libraries, you’re just not able to see them via LDD.

No person should need an engineering manager, but nearly every single team deserves one. It's not difficult to be productive as an individual; but teams are much more complex and r…

… in Poland.

> While the EPA reports the cattle industry in the United States accounts for 2.4% of total greenhouse gas emissions, some consumers are convinced that beef production is a major c…

> To my knowledge Google and the other big tech companies aren't building application directly for offence/defence. Actually there was a big uproar about exactly this several years…

That's Brian's point. rustls/webpki/ring do not have funding in line with projects like Go's crypto or BoringSSL: > ... ARM, Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft [...] should…

Linkerd's sidecar proxy ( https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy ) is implemented in Rust. It implements transparent mTLS, HTTP load balancing, telemetry, etc. Rust gives us saf…

Dan Duchamp's CS 521 TCP/IP Networking -- he had us implement low-level protocols like DNS and TCP/IP from scratch, in C. Brutal, but exceptionally rewarding.

jschauma's been doing this for a while: I took this course about 15 years ago! It was one of the two most challenging, rewarding courses in my undergrad degree. I still apply thing…

I've written a few production-facing applications with Tokio; and I think the author exactly identifies the stumbling blocks I hit while learning the landscape. My takeaway from wo…

The first release doesn't include Ingress support. This is something we plan on folding into our Routing API in an upcoming release. If you have opinions on how you'd like to see I…

If you think Conduit is bad, you should see the list of names we _didn't_ use! ;)

Conduit will probably have quite a bit of feature-overlap with Istio, especially, as it matures. However, I think you'll find that the projects will be quite different in the way t…

Like Linkerd, Envoy is a proxy that can be used used to build a service mesh. Conduit is a service mesh that includes a proxy. So, yes, Conduit uses something that competes with En…

> Why not DNS round-robin? Round-robin may be sufficient for your needs. However, the load balancing techniques that linkerd employs solved real production issues for us. These tec…

Yep! That is exactly what I meant by that ;)

linkerd is a router and not a "web server", so there may be features web-servery features that you still want from nginx that don't belong in linkerd. However, linkerd should be us…