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I find this infra perspective so fascinating, as a career-long product platform engineer and solidly staff+. I don't argue that sean's writing (which is amazing) is a little overly…

Finally, I cannot wait! This sure sounds like it should remove the terrifying guesswork of wondering what the actual quota values are, detecting when you're approaching a limit, an…

Strong agree -- the distribution was a solid deal when it happened and didn't require a paywall. I just gave up on them ( http://www.locallyoptimal.com/blog/2019/03/24/publish-inde…

Inherited a codebase that ran nearly all revenue-critical operations, and operated at its core on some of the most metaclassy/dynamic tools Python has at its disposal. Luckily I wo…

Great to see open source tooling around Step Functions. Personally I'm still holding out for someone taking the States language spec ( https://states-language.net/spec.html ) and t…

What makes you say Step Functions isn't ready for prime time? We've been using it (and SWF which it is based off) for about a year at decent scale and been generally very happy wit…

Exactly -- and I guess my question is whether there is any reason to believe they won't succeed :(

So I ask this mostly out of horrified curiosity -- is there any negative press or revelation that could actually sink Uber at this point? What would it take for the company to fail…

Very much looking forward to an upcoming project with Step Functions at $DAYJOB. I suspect there are many use cases for turning complicated intersections of batch jobs and blobs of…

Is it possible to accept an activity task with no timeout, store the state in a DB, then when your event occurs, load state from the DB and send the task_success signal? Not conven…

As someone currently at the "prove it's a good idea" stage of moving production from SWF to SFN, I'm happy to hear it's been such a good experience in practice! I think I'm mostly …

By far the most frustrating part of blogging for me (though certainly not the only one) is the assumption that no one will ever see it. I can probably solve this by options I disli…

Cool article. I really like repetition that model complexity is not a pancea. Seems like the industrial AI/ML movement as a whole has gone down a road where practitioners will, by …

This is exactly what the posted article doesn't do though, and I really appreciate that. In fact it's absurdly rare to see someone share their success story while owning up to the …

I think you underestimate the importance of context in all of this. You can't build any of these products well without knowing (deeply and certainly) users' patterns. Microsoft has…

You're comparing them on uneven terms. Show me one company besides Google that can even stack up to what Apple's done in Maps or with Siri. There's none. That's because both requir…

When I started working in SF (moving from the Los Angeles area) I had great luck renting a temporary place and apartment hunting after work hours. I used AirBnB but you would be fi…

At the same time, I think it's worth noting that a disturbing amount of the criticism made within the programming sphere is not aimed at solving a problem, but rather exposing the …