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Anthropic just updated their usage policy to address “abusive behavior towards our models” link.

The Multiplier Mindset The profession of software engineering is undergoing a rapid change.

This month I’m listening to the audiobook “Influence: Science and Practice” by Dr.

One useful tool I use when I want to make a hard decision easy: I picture myself at 80 years old and ask, will I regret not doing this?

One of the things I learned at Amazon is how to manage a workload significantly larger than any other place I’ve ever worked at.

One big challenge that comes up a lot at work is that there are always more things to do than time and people to do them.

I just started reading an early access ebook copy of The Linux Memory Manager by Lorenzo Stoakes, thanks to the book bundle Linux the Good Stuff.

Being Oncall I’m primary oncall for my AWS Service this week, so I might not have enough time to write every day, but as promised here’s a quick thing, what’s oncall like?

There’s a mental model that comes up a lot in my day to day.

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future” –Yogi Berra Making decisions is a life skill, no doubt about that.

I recently finished reading Thanks for the feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen and I can’t recommend it enough, especially now that it’s performance review season at many companies.

A new goal: publish a tiny micro post every day I have been meaning to write for a long time.

The Problem Containers Solve Docker emerged as a lightweight alternative to virtual machines.

A look at the AI and ML books that shaped my understanding of artificial intelligence, data science, and the ethics of technology.

Ever wondered what happens under the hood when you launch an ECS task with awsvpc networking?

What is the one metric for sucess in your career?

I’m lucky that I get to work with people who are good at what they do.

Practical Engineering by Peng Zhang I want to give a quick shout out to Peng’s blog peng.fyi Peng works with me writing software for AWS Fargate’s Dataplane.

Book Review I’m almost finished with The Siren’s Call by Chris Hayes and it’s interesting enough to call out here.

This week I had an Eureka moment at work.

The Problem Containers Solve Docker emerged as a lightweight alternative to virtual machines.

I have been an official Go programmer for three years now.

A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.

Book Summary: Thinking in Systems Let’s say you want to build the perfect self-driving vehicle.

The Top 3 Podcasts for Software Developers Go Time by Changelog link This is the podcast to keep up-to-date with all things Go.

Article: Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering Link to article The site realibility team at Google put together a summary of the lessons they have learned over the years.

Book Review: The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly Tanya Reilly gives a guide for individual contributor software engineers who wish to grow their career but do not want to become managers.

Go Russ Cox put out an article yesteday about adding the abilities to run coroutines in go.

Lately I have been learning about File Systems from the book “Operating Systems.

I’m trying to get through all my technical books that I’ve adquired, and never gotten around to.

Link to Paper This paper, published in July 1974 is remarkable because the design decisions that were made back then by these guys working at Bell Labs on an operating system for the PDP-11 are still relevant.

Link to Paper From the abstract: “This paper analyzes the scalability of seven system applications running on Linux on a 48-core computer…using mostly standard parallel programming techniques -this paper introduces one new technique sloppy counters these…

Go I have been writing go since a little after last year.

Omega Link to paper Omega was the second cluster manager system built by Google.

Borg Link to Paper Borg is the cluster management system that runs hundreds of thousands of jobs at Google, it is the original system, it’s sucessor Omega was written as a reaction to the lessons learned from it.

Link to Paper This paper was published originally in 1983 by the legendary folks from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Link to Paper This paper is a list of recommendations for running a large-scale system that aims to keep quality high and costs low.

Link to paper Today’s paper comes thanks to Will Larson this is a recommended paper in his book Elegant Puzzle This paper builds on the concepts from the the CAP Theorem which essentially says that when it comes to distributed systems you can only have 2…

Day three: Design patterns for container-based distributed systems Link to paper Containers provide the ability to package, deploy and reuse applications using a natural isolation boundary.

Welcome to day 2 of my paper-every-day journey.

I’ve decided to read a research paper each day.