It’s time! #reInvent2020
I should have aimed higher. Starting today, AWS ƛ billing moves to 1ms increments. #serverless https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1025239637042782208
Replying to @rts_rob
Slaps top of headroom...This Lambda can hold so much extra work at the same cost!
I’m interested to see what you all build on AWS Lambda with larger functions, 1ms billing, and OCI image support. #serverless https://twitter.com/danilop/status/1333819396930867200
RT @niallmullensays: Good to get this out. 3GB was the first feature I shipped when joining lambda . 10gb and 6 CPU’s enables so many more…
Replying to @benkershner
As long as that conversation didn’t result in doing actual things, I’d consider it a win.
RT @danilop: Let me and Matt know what you’re going to build with all the new Lambda goodies out today! https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1333820425223081984
In addition to the 🌊 of 🔥 AWS Lambda announcements, this small post belies a huge engineering accomplishment:
“Effective immediately, all S3 GET, PUT, and LIST operations, as well as operations that change object tags, ACLs, or metadata, are now strongly consistent.” https://twitter.com/_msw_/status/1333929339541352448
Replying to @davecheney
Season one of Mystery Road was good. Looking forward to Season 2 and someday returning to 🇦🇺
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Road_(TV_series)
Replying to @nconnaughton
Acorn on Prime
https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Road-Series-1/dp/B07FYL2VBC
Replying to @joshroppo
Hi everyone!
“This post is a summary of the approach and tools I’ve used to build an engineering team, where everyone is a leader by rotating project lead responsibilities within the team.”(via @Pocket) #longreads https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/a-team-where-everyone-is-a-leader/
“A big part of being a Senior Engineer is not just being able to do the work but being able to work with other people in a collaborative and effective way. “ Making Moves: How These Black Women Made The Switch from Junior to Senior Engineer https://peopleofcolorintech.com/front/making-moves-how-these-black-woman-made-the-switch-from-junior-to-senior-engineer/
Replying to @brianleroux
Bane is from Blaine
RT @nicolefv: It’s my birthday, so you should really go check out the latest Octoverse reports. this year, with EVEN MOAR DATA
did you kno…
“These two new features, io_uring and eBPF, will revolutionize programming in Linux.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhjoky
“But the topic for today is runc. Let’s see what it is capable of.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhjoqv
“Many companies should value the team independence over the crosscutting changes.” (via @Pocket) http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/amazon_manyrepo_builds.html
“In this post I’ve shown you how container image support in Lambda makes it easy to create complex applications that rely on binary tools.”(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhjob3
“[T]he protocol we select determines how much programming is required to get to the same feature set, with TCP taking the most programming and gRPC taking the least.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhjo5K
“Are your DNS TTLs set to sane values?”
(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhjoVc
Replying to @RobotTaylor and @Pocket
Who can forget the TTL ignoring JVM default configuration bugs.
Replying to @nconnaughton and @Pocket
That one is unfortunately pretty mild given some of the others I’ve read.
“We recently rolled out a small change that reduced the CPU utilization of our API frontend servers at Twitch by ~30% and reduced overall 99th percentile API latency during peak load by ~45%.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-heap-26c2462549a2/
“Want a more reliable system? You’ll need a team that is highly skilled, communicates effectively, and fixes problems when they are small.”
The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3434773
“All that is changing slowly, because now we have a brand new interface to perform I/O with the kernel - io_uring.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://developers.mattermost.com/blog/hands-on-iouring-go/
Replying to @jrhunt, @awscloud, @AWSreInvent and @brandicarlile
She’s tremendous: https://youtu.be/KJqL1yIm9e0
As always, lots of good observations in here, including
Top challenges reported by all groups: 1️⃣ Incomplete test coverage 2️⃣ Organizational mindset 3️⃣ Tightly coupled application architecture
https://puppet.com/resources/report/2020-state-of-devops-report/
“Trying to decipher whether a document is relevant, or a decision is stale...can slow employees down and lead to mistakes. Companies that want to get better at writing need to invest in how they manage written information.” https://pocket.co/xhjye_
For the Beat Box fan who has everything...
https://www.cameo.com/dougeversofresh
Replying to @benkershner
Correct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwrg0db_zY
Replying to @tmclaughbos
The Eagleorian is coming.
“The tl;dr is the same however: as an industry we mostly don’t know how to do it and consequently massively under-invest in making our engineering orgs actually effective.”
Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.(via @Pocket) http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flowers/
“Without strong propagation standards and first class support from the entire stack, this is a hard problem.”
Why is metric collection still a hard problem in 2020?(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhjVEj
Great talk by @niallm on the connection between resiliency, I&D, and how to make thing better.
on-call | Dave Cheney https://dave.cheney.net/tag/on-call
Pajamas, a person, and a problem.... https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1336891835403304963
I’ve been using https://obsidian.md/ for several weeks and it’s been working well. One of the things it supports are templated “Today’s Note” entries. It’s markdown with image support, so everyday I’m greeted by:
One click to help #CureRaghav:
https://www.curegpx4.org/ https://twitter.com/sanathkr_/status/1337227367102566403
Replying to @sanathkr_
Thinking of you all and wishing you the best. 🙏
Replying to @chrismunns
Same and strong agree.
Helping people discover interesting threads of historical and industry work was a lot simpler when we had RSS.
Replying to @nconnaughton
We can dream...
“If you don’t understand what is preventing your team from being successful, you won’t be able to fix it.” (via @Pocket) https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/debug-team/
Replying to @sallamar
Agreed.
Related: I passed your along your Twitter handle (and @copyconstruct @kstewart @rakyll and @lizthegrey) to keep the change going in a good direction. 😀
“CloudWatch Lambda Insights provides clearer and simpler operational visibility of your functions by automatically collating and summarizing Lambda performance metrics, errors, and logs in prebuilt dashboards...” https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/using-amazon-cloudwatch-lambda-insights-to-improve-operational-visibility/
“What does the Go and Scala one have in common that Java does not?
You can trust the function from the signature.” (via @Pocket) https://quii.dev/Functional_programming_and_Go
Howdy gophers!
Come help us build the next generation of AWS Lambda #serverless
https://golangweekly.com/issues/342
RT @nicolefv: This is some absolute trash.
And for a fun fact: PhDs were called doctors before MDs. So anyone worried about it can start…
“We thought this was an opportunity to have fun with a new language—which, in hindsight, was a damn stupid thing to do.”
(via @Pocket) #longreads https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c/
“Demystifying and debugging complex systems without getting overwhelmed.” https://orijtech.github.io/talks/2020/12/03/gosystemsconf/gosystemsconf.htm?f=1#7
Replying to @aka_pugs, @j0sema and @Pocket
Still using it today. Thank you.
Replying to @seclectech
Starting today.
Code like no one is watching.
Provide the most actionable, tightest scoped user response when that stealthy code is unable to uphold the users intent like everyone is.
MTBBTT: Mean Time Between Bad Twitter Takes
Replying to @GisselleXie
Truth. I think the units on that billboard are aspirational :)
RT @C_C_Krebs: Also, hacks of this type take exceptional tradecraft and time. On the 1st, if this is a supply chain attack using trusted re…
RT @dominikhonnef: Around christmas felt like the perfect time to release Staticcheck 2020.2 and give everyone some nice performance improv…
ICYMI, our team of gophers at AWS Lambda is growing! DMs open to talk security, scale, and #serverless in 2021.
#serverless https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1337512663874584577
How I imagine I come across using signal dropping Bluetooth headphones.
Replying to @RobotTaylor
Replying to @RobotTaylor
Me too.
Octopus as technology choice:
Great thread on Amazon Neptune by @marknca . https://twitter.com/marknca/status/1338865322699366400
Love the historical stories woven into @werner ’s #reInvent keynote.
Related to @werner #reinvent s talk about formal specs, @hillelogram has a post on applying TLA+ to your favorite misbehaving #go application.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-golang/
Replying to @mweagle
Automated reasoning is what enables: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-read-after-write-consistency/
Replying to @lemmster, @Werner and @hillelogram
He didn’t - OTOH I know of http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon.pdf and https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/protect-sensitive-data-in-the-cloud-with-automated-reasoning-zelkova/ (he did mention Zelkova).
Fuzz all the #go things! #reInvent
https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-fuzzing.md
AWS Fault Injection Simulator announced at #reinvent will support injecting Control Plane faults. 🙌
Replying to @rakyll
This is the best movie trailer of the year. 🔥
Replying to @benkershner
┌─────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─────────────┘ PNW - 5pm Near Winter Solstice (Best in dark mode)
RT @dyanacek: Becky Weiss is one of my personal heroes at Amazon, and she spoke in Werner’s #reinvent keynote about one of my favorite topi…
RT @IanColdwater: Introvert managers: literally how do you do this? I’m already tired
RT @jbesw: A big day for #serverless DA #reinvent sessions! Don’t miss: ⭐️AWS Lambda Part 1: Optimizing your serverless applications (@chri…
Great opportunity to chat with #serverless peeps https://twitter.com/ben11kehoe/status/1338619051250049024
Perfect holiday gift for your closest bash-interested friends 👇 https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1339280229215461378
Replying to @dpp
🤗
Thx & glad I could help!
GPT-3 has entered the chat https://twitter.com/SPIN/status/1339342011774738438
Replying to @richburroughs
Yeah, there’s a lot going on in there, on multiple levels.
TIL you can’t post a Tweet with both an image and a GIF.
RT @mikegchambers: Missed Office Hours with @ben11kehoe, @ShortJared, me, and a special appearance from @timbray?
A recording is now avai…
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @tmclaughbos
Knotty thread right here.
Excellent #serverless chat between @jeremy_daly and @ajaynairthinks including a block about the value of time and TCO. https://overcast.fm/+Som_btGW0
Only one more to complete https://www.52hikechallenge.com/
Fantastic! 🎉
Replying to @nconnaughton
Weather was great. It’s up north:
https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/artist-point-snowshoe
“[W]e’re trying to alter our service boundaries to match our team boundary. Which means, merging microservices back into the monolith.” https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3944-why-ive-been-merging-microservices-back-into-the-monolith-at-invision.htm
Taking a break from a heated meeting discussing how I can improve my VC skills in 2021.
Replying to @kstewart
Just VideoConferencing 😀
Pineapple ruins a pizza https://twitter.com/GenericBologna/status/1342284017941557249
Hi @NBATV , PDX has Dame and is not “in the area of SEA.” There are also no in-person fans this year.
Please correct this injustice.
Replying to @brianleroux
Replying to @edjgeek
Replying to @sthulb and @edjgeek
Lambda recently added container support.
Great discussion on systems, people, and safety.
“If we’re successful, nothing happens.” https://overcast.fm/+EODPmeCMA
Noodling around with ways to express AWS Lambda x-service integration tests more concisely. “GAER” only adds to my branding skills deficit.
Replying to @kstewart
Marketing campaign: “ Using BDD in Anger?
Try RageTest! ”
Replying to @sigje
Sorry to hear
Replying to @kstewart
Looking sharp.
“On the other hand, Perlis says that one of the very best remedies for insomnia is also one of the simplest, and it works because it prevents people from making that mistake.”(via @Pocket) https://elemental.medium.com/the-best-remedy-for-insomnia-is-the-one-you-havent-tried-a450f5493cc5
“From then on, I vowed to never sit quietly again. I let go of the need to be liked and started speaking my mind.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhkRJZ
“All too often, engineers build features that meet specifications but not expectations.” (via @Pocket) https://leaddev.com/hiring-onboarding-retention/onboarding-remote-early-career-engineers
“We plan to maintain the Tokio 1.0 branch for a minimum of 5 years.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhkRqq
“The creation of software is a team sport: strong results coming from many people collaborating and communicating well.” (via @Pocket) https://leaddev.com/building-happy-teams/geometry-software-teams
“You do not have to jump into serverless head first, with incremental approaches to modernizing your application from every conceivable angle.” (via @Pocket) https://www.stackery.io/blog/reinvent-2020-serverless-leadership-recap/
“Speaking of little things, let’s consider what pushed me over the edge and provoked me to write this whole rant in the first place.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride
First Big Sur incompatibility: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100840
Fix: https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig/issues/123
Replying to @crewjam
Scala has entered the chat...
Replying to @rakyll
Same.
RT @big_business_: God, I don’t ask for much but plz let Ja Morant be alright
I wasn’t sure what to expect and had low expectations after watching the trailer.
Verdict: Ted Lasso is a great show. https://twitter.com/CultofLasso/status/1341050461248495623
Replying to @listonb
Sorry to hear.
Replying to @metz123
Yep - relentlessly optimistic
Great list of books 👇
Recommended Engineering Management Books(via @Pocket) #longreads https://caitiem.com/2020/12/28/recommended-engineering-management-books/
“The right team of people trumps everything else.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhkla2
“Although it’s far from certain, after over a decade of work it looks like a design for parametric polymorphism, what is colloquially but misleadingly called generics, is coming in the next year or two.”
https://evrone.com/rob-pike-interview
“When we set out to build this new system, our intent wasn’t to fix every flaky test or to stop developers from introducing new flaky tests. Such goals, if not impossible, seemed impractical.” (via @Pocket) https://github.blog/2020-12-16-reducing-flaky-builds-by-18x/
Found an old slide deck I made from 5 years ago and wasn’t mortified by everything in it.
Replying to @mweagle
Single stats can bring focus and not always in a good way
Replying to @RobotTaylor
You’re in good company https://twitter.com/Werner/status/799266204229701632
Learning graphviz is something that’s been pretty helpful over the years. It’s likely there are other tools nowadays, and those “death star/transitive package graphs” aren’t always super helpful, but text to SVG is pretty nice.
Replying to @mweagle
Handy plugin for @code users: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tintinweb.graphviz-interactive-preview
Replying to @mweagle
TIL there are color schemes!
http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/colors.html#brewer
As a “design challenged individual”, I appreciate this.
Props on a 2+ decade run.
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
RT @kstewart: https://t.co/WkPgAzTOYm
Big Sur still bringing that unbalanced energy to 2021
Replying to @mweagle
“Support orthogonal coalesced edges” still a todo :(
Replying to @ghaz
Thank you for sharing this. Just installed it :)
MF Doom 🙏
Later, 2020.
Please unroll @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/MarcJBrooker/status/1344779967276597249
Replying to @dr_nickiw
Same here.