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It’s important to keep in mind that 12 years ago, the patterns for high scale message queues (and often even low scale) were still in flux and getting established. In the ruby worl…

This stuff is hard. As someone who runs infra teams for a living, these are the worst kinds of weeks. Hang in there. You all will learn from this and be better for it. Your archite…

I was lucky enough to visit the broadcast studios seven or so years ago for a taping of windows weekly. It was a bucket list item of mine after I started listening to Leo in 2008 d…

Right now, we just require intermediate services to be spun up if you need to connect with a custom downstream service. So, as an example, if I have three services where A talks to…

As someone who has built out a similar internal tool, one of the things I'm excited to see someone do is the route propagation technique. It's something I've evaluated adding to ou…

Sean Kelly (aka Stabby), is one of the most talented engineers I’ve ever worked with, and is someone who understands the challenges and pitfalls of architecture ahead of his time, …

I took 5 weeks off from my startup when I had my first, and I’ll be taking 3 months off for my second who arrives end of the month. I’m at a larger organization now in a leadership…

Both platforms are worth supporting. Com does a lot of great events and creates great content, and I like supporting it. I also prefer their UX. Lichess has Maia bot, some good cou…

Always excited when chess pops up on HN once a month or so. As someone who picked it up as a hobby in December, I can attest that lichess is a great app and site for folks looking …

You're 100% right. Thanks for adding Danya.

Add me to the list of folks likely to respond to this thread about getting back into it later in life. I have a toddler (and soon baby number 2) and I find it a really enjoyable br…

We do 30 minute daily “standup ups” where the “what I’m currently focused on” component lasts for 10 minutes. Our group discussions, that are IC led, that come out of challenges or…

Not only did he get suspended, but he was suspended while also competing in the Grand Prix, where he needs to likely make the semi finals to make the candidates tournament. He open…

Dropped out of a comp sci PhD program after a year for this exact same reason. Will go get my masters some day so I can teach in retirement, but was saddened teaching in higher ed …

As a student pilot, this drives me nuts. The volume of abbreviations, especially in NOTAMS, METARs, etc, is a bit obscene. What’s wonderful too is that the abbreviations are often …

Rule number one. Use what you know. Rule number two, use what can last you for the first three years. Rule number three, build with considerable haste. Don’t choose anything from 1…

Absolutely hard. But that doesn’t mean if you’re in a position to start a company from scratch that you can’t walk away. Or if you go to another company and are involved in their p…

I hear you. I didn’t use EBS for five years after the great outage in, what was it, 2011? At this point, it’s reliable enough that even if it were to go down, it’s more safe than n…

Respectfully disagree. No company in the world has 100% uptime. Whether it’s your server rack or their server rack going down means nothing to a customer. We’re not discussing data…

I deeply concur with this statement. I think folks here are conflating a one off test versus keeping your redundancy up to date as apps evolve.

I’ve been running platform teams on aws now for 10 years, and working in aws for 13. For anyone looking for guidance on how to avoid this, here’s the advice I give startups I advis…

There was an AZ outage in Oregon a couple months back. You should definitely go multi AZ without hesitation for production workloads for systems that should be highly available. Yo…

I’m not a CTO, but I am a senior leader that also in the past helped found a leadership development program focused on management (tech and non tech related). As is always the case…

Which is why in the USA you write off your losses. If you make 11 on 20 and lose 10 on 20, you pay taxes on 1 dollar.

Well said. Thanks for sharing your story.