Remembering Bob Lee

Post by echelon » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 7:16 AM UTC

KingOfCoders wrote: post #194

bcantrill wrote: post #41

Thank you very much -- I guess it's understandable given the tragic circumstances of his death, but Bob very much deserves to be remembered as you described him: an engineer's engineer. I first met him at Foo Camp in 2011, and we had a deeply enthralling conversation about building the Square reader. As it turns out, credit card swipes are (were?) fiendishly complicated! (I still tell others the advice that Bob gave…

"dang: Thank you for the black bar today for Bob" I want to second that.

Post by levidos » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 7:46 AM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #174

lpolovets wrote: post #82

I interviewed at Google almost 20 years ago, and Bob was one of 5-6 interviewers that I had. I don't remember the other interviewers, but I remember Bob. He was very high energy, and posed a really fun, original question about selective logging. The kind of question that you could tell was born out of his personal experiences at Google, not just something he found in a "ten linked list questions" blog post. The gist…

This is very interesting but I fail to see an issue. You listen to all incoming log messages and only store != success. What am I missing (obviously)

Post by oweiler » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:05 AM UTC

bhupy wrote: post #107

asfasfo wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You forgot to mention that the dependency injection library, Guice, that you were asking about was created by Bob himself! CashApp's monolith is still called Franklin today.

Ex-Square chiming in (I fondly remember Project Franklin), he was also arguably the inventor of modern dependency injection as we know it! https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=330

Post by dumpster_fire » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:29 AM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #174

lpolovets wrote: post #82

I interviewed at Google almost 20 years ago, and Bob was one of 5-6 interviewers that I had. I don't remember the other interviewers, but I remember Bob. He was very high energy, and posed a really fun, original question about selective logging. The kind of question that you could tell was born out of his personal experiences at Google, not just something he found in a "ten linked list questions" blog post. The gist…

This is very interesting but I fail to see an issue. You listen to all incoming log messages and only store != success. What am I missing (obviously)

Post by Vayl » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 10:21 AM UTC

dumpster_fire wrote: post #207

joering2 wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is very interesting but I fail to see an issue. You listen to all incoming log messages and only store != success. What am I missing (obviously)

It's a system design question. High throughout on the scale of Google means you'd laser any log ingestion service to death. He was probably looking for a distributed way to label logs and build an ingestion service that shards regionally with high availability, but still able to search and filter within an acceptable time for debugging purposes.