Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon after his personnel changes, but X has been able to incre...
Microservices aren't the problem. Incompetent people are
There's been a lot of (deserved) criticism towards microservice architecture and how it's usually hurtful to the companies. However, I believe SOA isn't bad ...
Lessons Learned by a Software Guy Venturing into Hardware
I've been in the software game for almost 30 years professionally, with another 10 dabbling in programming. I'm one of those who think anyone can code, but creating a software product...
Our latest report examines more than 2.4 billion containers run by tens of thousands of Datadog customers to understand the state of the container ecosystem.
New for Amazon SQS – Update the AWS SDK to reduce latency | Amazon Web Services
With Amazon SQS, you can send and receive messages between software components at any scale. It was one of the first AWS services I used and as a Solutions Architect, I helped many customers take advantage of asynchronous communications using message queues. In fact, Amazon SQS has been generally available since July 2006 and, under […]
Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP
This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they respond, and why do Azure’s processes stand out compared to its rivals?
This week’s system design interview: Python Vs C++ Vs Java! (Youtube video) Explaining 9 types of API testing API Vs SDK! System Design for Everyone! Explain the Top 6 Use Cases of Object Stores How to Build Your Engineering Metrics Program (Guide) (Sponsored)
Introducing the Next Generation of AWS Amplify’s Fullstack Development Experience | Amazon Web Services
AWS Amplify just announced a public preview of a new code-first developer experience that empowers frontend developers to quickly build and deploy fullstack apps with their existing TypeScript or Javascript skills. The first generation of the tooling offered a tooling-first experience, using a CLI/Console-based interactive workflow to create a backend. Gen 2 transitions to a […]
We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.
This is a technical dive into how we split our data across many MySQL servers. We finished launching this sharding approach in early 2012, and it’s still the system we use today to store our core…