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API gateways are primarily used for HTTP traffic coming from clients external to your backend services eg. an iOS device (hence the term 'gateway' vs. 'mesh'). I don't think they s…

Counterpoint to the Clarendon vs. DC. IMO Clarendon bars are chock full of college frat bros with next to no diversity, while DC is more of a mixed scene.

As someone who moved from DC proper to NYC, DC is nowhere near NYC in terms of expenses. In 14th St or Logan circle you can get a brand new 2BR for the price of an old tiny, dilapi…

If you are interested in the genuine impacts and not a hyperbolic, emotionally charged discussion best left to pundits, then below are some areas I would suggest researching and co…

I read it a while ago and while I can't recall what was said exactly, I remember how I felt while reading it and how strong it was. The mark of a good book.

How did you achieve 4 days a week? Curious to hear about your strategy.

If your goal is maintenance mode for the company, milk profits for 10 years, and to be eventually replaced by competitors then I think you can run a company very slim. The other qu…

Can you elaborate on budgets realigned? Wouldn't that have happened in Q4 for the new year?

Interesting, 80% seems a bit on the higher end nowadays though? For example, Google quantified this as the "datacenter tax" and through their cluster wide profiling tooling saw tha…

A few thoughts. The first is, are we asking the wrong questions? Should it be, "If I spend 10m on hardware for predicting ads (storage/compute) that generates 25m in revenue, shoul…

If you were starting an app from scratch that required, say, serving a JS frontend, python as the server, and Postgres as the RDBMS, which cloud platform is the quickest/easiest?

Is this how it works at most companies where new budget leads to new headcount and hiring in January? Is it due to an annual process?

I checked a few days ago and the revenue per employee at big tech is eerily similar to "Biglaw" and non retail banking (Jones day, >200k entry level, goldman is similar) at 1-2mil …

Interestingly revenue per employee (1.2 - 1.8 mil per employee) at biglaw companies is similar to FAANG although i'd guess biglaw margins are higher as you have less other costs (i…

Does this logic work for lawyers? "Biglaw" firms are similar to FAANG in that it is a handful of companies that offer very high comp (235k for first year). There is a deluge of fol…

Meta has received much attention for significant growth in capex, but I was curious from a technical side what the plan is? I'm assuming they are investing in datacenters optimized…

Maybe you could provide links, examples, or helpful context instead of snark?

Twitter has ads serving infra, recommendation systems (timeline, notifications, events, users), user generated events, prediction systems (ads), user graphs. The complexity is from…