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My colleague worked on Lumina which solves a related problem of tracking compute cost with discounts and spot pricing: https://github.com/Nextdoor/lumina

Those who hire a crisis management team rarely win in the court of public opinion. BAM just continues to dig a hole when they could instead facilitate fixing the situation regardle…

At the end of the day there has to be a tradeoff between ease of use and performance. Having spent a lot of time optimizing high throughput services in go, it always felt like I wa…

The movie seems like a fluff piece when you find out what has transpired at DeepMind subsequently with slowing down publishing material to “selling out to product” which the founde…

I had some experience with RTK and sensor fusion about 13 years ago on a college project. At the time the only people that were using RTK in real world applications were tractor co…

My worry is we're going to have a generation of engineers that have not built up the necessary critical thinking/pattern matching skills needed to weigh tradeoffs and bring in cont…

I’m impressed they managed to make an app that makes me not want to use it or my phone to take photos! After I used it for about 5 mins I resolved to dust off my older DSLR and use…

I feel that if you need an LLM to help pivot between existing data it just means the operability tool has gaps in user functionality. This is by far my biggest gripe with DataDog t…

We've discussed getting backup power periodically since moving (most of our neighbors have something). After the big bomb cyclone that hit the NPW this became a priority and I did …

> In the year 2030, no one will remember Kubernetes. I highly doubt that. Maybe there will be an evolution to k8s but fundamentally it solves a whole host of challenges around defi…

Nice! I'm one of the authors of pg-bifrost which is in the same space. Have you thought about / have solved sharding consumption across multiple slots / multi consumers to increase…

Sounds like the author is missing an interface to abstract the DB backend.

My team manages a handful of clusters at work and I wrote on an internal redis client proxy (it's on my todo list to opensource). A few things I tell other teams to set them up for…

Right, so basically taxi cabs but personalized ads. GG on marginally progressing the wheel.

I wrote and operate a high throughput go service with somewhat tight memory requirements. It became impracticable to try tuning the memory footprint to avoid OOMs while balancing g…

If data storage isn't your startup's job then I would negotiate heavily on the AWS contract.

I doubt the city will see a penny from this. There's nothing in place to do an audit to figure out who should be taxed.

That didn't take long...

Is the problem that leetcode questions were used or that coding was a hard requirement for a devops position? I do screeners for my team and being able to write code is a hard requ…

There was an NPR clip a month or so ago that likened homeowners to a cartel.

The post is good but just scratches the surface on running Kinesis Streams / Lambda at scale. Here are a few additional things I found while running Kinesis as a data ingestion pip…

I just listened to it last night. It was an eye opening episode. You could see how easy it is for desperate people to fall victim to the brokers.