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> - A big queue of PR's for reviewers to review This is a feature. I would infinitely prefer 12 PRs that each take 5 minutes to review than 1 PR that takes an hour. Finding a few 5…

Where this breaks down, as I've experienced at least, is that the product management side maintains basically zero awareness of the production constraints engineers are working wit…

Probably a result of the patent dispute over the feature: https://apnews.com/article/apple-watch-patent-dispute-sales-...

I didn't realize they were actually selling a 10 Gbps service tier as part of this branding. It's never been available in my market, so I assumed that they were advertising the upl…

Autoscaling seems like a downstream concern from the techniques being discussed here. Autoscaling tends to have a pretty high latency, so you still need a strategy for being overlo…

> Real products built today have a finite amount of demand, and global cloud capacity is larger than that. This isn't really true, and it's especially not true when specialized har…

Yeah, I don't think circuit breakers are really the appropriate choice in most of the situations the article is describing. Rate limiting and backpressure seem like better options …

Nested replies are definitely better as a way of consuming a post and its comments once and then never thinking about it again. For an asynchronous discussion between several peopl…

> A doctor knows what his practice is worth and wants every cent he can get out of it - but the next generation of doctor is not going to be able to compete with debt financing wha…

It's not "general purpose computing" maintenance, but the service you're talking about does exist, though AFAIK mostly at the very high-end. It's typically for things like home the…

What's the confusion? The allegation is that choosing to build this represents, at best, incredibly poor judgment. The GitHub issue and GP post are good faith appeals to kindest po…

This isn't a fair analogy. There's a cost to adding new tools to a software environment, and an ongoing cost to maintaining that tool. Closer, IMO, is you're speccing out a new hou…

How does being able to point at a database prevent land being stolen in the absence of a trusted third party? It's not like the land itself can authenticate the farmer. For the dat…

Interesting concept! A couple quick things I noticed trying to use the site. First, you can't view product details without paying for a subscription. I wanted to look at the t-shir…

That really depends on what you're working on and to what degree it's coupled to the system it's a part of. A form on a web application, or an API endpoint? Sure, rewriting it is p…

This post is from 2011 and the techniques it describes have been superseded by cgroups. One of the followup posts is specifically about them: http://osgtech.blogspot.com/2011/07/pa…

A few questions/observations from reading over the docs and source code. There's not necessarily any significance to the order, or weight to the observations. With the recent NPM s…

I believe the difference is that Open vSwtich is intended to be used as a software switch similar to how a VM is intended to be a virtual server (and its intended use there would p…

It seems like only methods can be decorated. Is there any hope for decorators on top-level functions in the future?

The relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1252/

I've done this at my university, but in a slightly less obnoxious way. We have a grid computing environment set up (using Sun Grid Engine) that allows people to run bulk jobs acros…

It'd be interesting to look at how much of the 20-24 demographic is college students. In the US at least it's pretty normal for parents to pay for their children's phone bills whil…

This is pretty cool. The google calendar event to create texts seems like a hack though (even more-so than the rest of it). Is there any reason this couldn't just use the SMS gatew…

I was expecting a power strip: http://www.apc.com/