Bookmarks from 2024
111 bookmarks from 2024
The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning
Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning.
Your company needs Junior devs
Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate
Doing support makes you a better engineer - by Ian Vanagas
What we've learned about providing support that doesn't suck (and does scale)!
Career Advice: Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck - Kellblog
“If you can’t explain it to a six year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein There are two types of people in business: Simplifiers: who make complex things simple Complexifiers: who make simple things complex Quick joke Question: What … Continue reading →
Do AI companies work? - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack
The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.
Simplify Your RAG Implementation Using Foundational Models | AWS Marketplace
Learn how to deploy production-ready vector storage capabilities, using tried-and-tested components already available in the tech stack of most organizations.
What Research Says About Cats: They’re Selfish, Unfeeling, and Environmentally Harmful
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate c
Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) - Christian Hollinger
A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.
The Road to Out-of-Process ReSharper: Asynchronous Typing | The .NET Tools Blog
Taking ReSharper out of process is a monumental undertaking. We covered the magnitude of this in a previous blog post and posted some updates on YouTrack along the way. In the simplest
American data spies will never care where the servers are
In the two years since the European Court of Justice invalidated the Privacy Shield concept, European companies have been scrambling to pretend to comply with the ruling, without changing anything consequential about how they use American internet services. The erroneous consensu
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
