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sethvargo

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About sethvargo

Seth Vargo is a Distinguished Software Engineer at Google. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and some Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking at conferences, Seth advises non-profits.

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    This is awesome - congratulations to the team on this raise. Very well-deserved :)

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    The context was introduced by the commenter. The original post does not use contexts. In general, there's a pretty common set of patterns in which multiple goroutines are writing d…

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    Also, this isn't semantically correct. In order to ensure that `conditionaA` is _always_ preferred over `conditionB`, you must also check if `conditionA` has received a value insid…

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    Right, which is noted in the post. That verbosity is, well, verbose. I generally need this in 20% of things I write.

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    It really doesn't though. It handles the case where the context might have expired or be cancelled, but there's still a race when entering the select between the ctx.Done() and rea…

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    How would you fix that code?

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    Thanks, I'll take this feedback back to the team. Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

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    Comment #26334571

    Yup - I can confirm that's the source. Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

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    The author of this paper alerted Google on June 11, 7:35 AM EST, less than 6 hours ago. While we recognize this is a rapidly-evolving space, a few hours is not in line with respons…

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    There's quite a few resources. Liz and I did a video series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTEL8Ff1Zvk and blog series: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/sre-vs-devops-co…

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    > Can anybody speak to the expertise of the authors on security? I think a cursory LinkedIn or social media search for any of the title authors or chapter authors will demonstrate …

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    I don't think I can talk about that, sorry.

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    I'll flag the HTML pages with the team. I'm honestly not sure. I know we're able to offer epub and mobi this time, something not previously possible with the other books. I haven't…

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    Comment #22816258

    Thanks for the feedback. This is a known issue that another user flagged this morning. The team is pursuing a fix. The content-type on the file is incorrect :/. In the meantime, yo…

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    Comment #22816236

    This is correct. This is the third book in our SRE series. It's reliability through the lens of security. Disclaimer: I work for Google

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    Great question. As an O'Reilly author myself, I can tell you that we have no control over the animal selected. There's a fun animal selection process, but the publisher's decide. D…

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    Hey everyone - Seth from Google here. Thank you for all the positive comments about the book. I'll be around to answer any questions you might have. As noted, the book can be downl…

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    This feedback is super valuable - thank you for sharing. I'll be sure to relay it to the product team.