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The House of Requirements
A diagram I created years ago. I though it’s worth sharing.
Data center cooling: Pros and cons of air, liquid and geothermal systems
Sustainability efforts and high-density AI-based applications are sparking new and revamped approaches to data center cooling.
Choosing a disaster recovery site
Enterprises typically have three options: Set up a secondary data center, go with an external DR service provider, or leverage the public cloud for recovery.
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably - Source
Microsoft retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands. Project Natick is proving the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical.
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests | nicole@web
RSS readers make me want to jump into a vat of acid! — Keenan
Calendar, notes, task management
David Sparks, in the Mac Power Users episode Don’t Hear What We Aren’t Saying : “The holy trinity of productivity: you need a good calenda...
gRPC Name Resolution & Load Balancing on K8s: Everything you need to know (and probably a bit more)
Load balancing gRPC requests on Kubernetes can be challenging. In this blog we tried to deep dive into the inner-workings of each part…
2024 will be the year of cloud-native burnout - ShiftMag
In 2024 developers' professional lives will not be as impacted by new tools and frameworks as by - mental health.
The Future of Digital Twins
Digital twin technology creates a virtual copy of a physical object, person, or process to simulate real-world behavior and performance.
Crystal: the lingua franca at Bright
A language for humans and computers
The Decline of Hardware Knowledge in the Era of Cloud Native Compute
In today's computing ecosystem, I would very much be considered a cloud-native engineer. My first job in the industry saw me deploying cloud hosted platforms on Rackspace and AWS infrastructure, and I have been specializing in AWS ever since. To me, highly available cloud deployments are the basics, the norm,
Being Glue — No Idea Blog
Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.
Generating code was never the hard part - Nick Scialli | Senior Software Engineer
The one about generative AI
Code to an interface!
How often have you heard "Code to an interface"? I'm sure, at least a few times, and I know it can be hard to understand at first. I've been there, so let's see what it means.
What We Discovered on ‘Deep YouTube’
The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure.
Google’s New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet
Less a place of words written by people, more one of words generated by bots.
via hiptop
Todepond dot com
Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL
Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process
Did Mark Discordia Deserve The Trolling He Got?
Considering an infamous target of trolling in the early online era. Did the middle-aged Nintendo fan really deserve it?
XMTP: The web3 messaging network
Own and control your communication.
Thoughts on XMTP
I use 9 messaging services to varying degrees: Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, SMS, Google Voice, and Twitter. Not counting various narrower inboxy things for vertic…
The death of posting personal works — Analog Dreams
As obvious as it may sound, I’m finally realizing that the reason I stopped wanting to post my personal work, make TikToks, vlogs, anyth...
How to create a simple PDF file
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
We’re gonna need a bigger printer.
Debugging Software Using Generative AI
UMass Amherst’s Baldur method can automatically write proofs that are used to verify code to prevent vulnerabilities.
How We Evolved from IaC to Environments as Code
Using GitOps methods to launch environments brings consistency, version control, speed and other advantages to development teams.
Monitoring Query Language overview | Google Cloud