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Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices
The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too.
Don't be fooled by serverless
Cloud aficionados love pinning the true promise of the cloud on serverless functions and services. Not getting the savings you thought you would with the cloud? It's because you didn't go serverless. Frustrated with the complexity of the cloud? Serverless! Performance questions?
What engineering can teach (and learn from) us
This is part three of the crossover project. Part one is here and part two is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to inter
We Are Not Special
This is part two of the crossover project. Part one is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge.
Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? - High Scalability -
Robert Scoble wrote a fascinating case study, MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft, where he reports MySpace insiders blame the Microsoft stack on why they lost the great social network race to Facebook. Does anyone know if this is t
The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus – Baldur Bjarnason
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month
The 1 Hour per Year Bug (But Only in Pacific Time!)
:::note This article was updated in response to some helpful comments on Hacker News. I originally incorrectly formatted the Pacific Time Zone daylight saving times relative to the Eastern Time Zone!…
Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - Stack Overflow
How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
I’ve won many marketing video contest promotions over the past decade using my proven techniques and tactics. This particular haul, however, was the first where I can give at least partial credit to the application of code and AI tools.
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) – charity.wtf
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dir…
AI Act is Here
The European Union enabled the Artificial Intelligence Act, the first-ever legal framework on AI, addressing its risks and positioning Europe as a leader in AI legislation. This article reviews the AI Act, the different risk categories, and how (and when) it will impact developme
This developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved? - Stack Overflow
Categories of leadership on technical teams | benkuhn.net
overall direction • people management • project management • technical leadership • example divisions of labor
Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer
What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
The real 10x developer makes their whole team better - Stack Overflow
Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications - Stack Overflow
Are We Really Engineers?
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the
