Toots from 2024-01-02
“What I love about consistency models is that they aren’t treated as correctness models. Instea…
“What I love about consistency models is that they aren’t treated as correctness models. Instead, they’re weirdness models: different levels of consistency will violate our intuitions relative to linearizability, and we need to choose what level of weirdness that we can actually implement and that is good enough for our application.”
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/12/29/the-inherent-weirdness-of-system-behavior/
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“The idea of “now” as a simple value that has meaning across a distance will always be problematic. We will continue to need both more research and more practical experience to improve our tools for living with that reality. We can do better. We can do it now.”
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2745385
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“To summarize, in just a few months, the CI feedback loop improved by a factor of four, decreas…
“To summarize, in just a few months, the CI feedback loop improved by a factor of four, decreasing from 80 minutes to 20 minutes.”
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/10/switching-build-systems-seamlessly/
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Excellent guidance for establishing a sustainable OnCall rotation including: “Put a slightly d…
Excellent guidance for establishing a sustainable OnCall rotation including:
“Put a slightly different way – if you can’t write a runbook which contains actions on how to resolve the alert, the alert shouldn’t exist.“
https://www.gybe.ca/how-to-be-on-call/