They’re only biases if they come from the land of perfect rationality, otherwise they’re just (mal)adaptive. https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1521212081168560128
“Mcrib’s efficiency increased the churn in the cache tier and contributed to the severity of the incident. Mcrib is objectively a better system for generating memcached configurations — but its efficiency made the broader system behave in a less safe way.” https://slack.engineering/slacks-incident-on-2-22-22/
“The lightweight distributed architecture provides a successful solution for the thousands of libraries released in eBay, which already benefits legacy libraries migration. “
https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/a-lightweight-distributed-architecture-to-handle-thousands-of-library-releases-at-ebay/
“Far too many researchers still do not understand this and believe that we only need to find some magic method and the problems of software engineering will be solved.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xpQN7T
“In both of these stories, a focus on how people were making their decisions and their direct work experience managed to highlight alternative views that wouldn’t have come up otherwise.”
Errors are constructed, not discovered https://ferd.ca/errors-are-constructed-not-discovered.html
“Although the design of most languages concentrates on innovations in syntax, semantics, or typing, Go is focused on the software development process itself.”
The Go Programming Language and Environment | May 2022 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/5/260357-the-go-programming-language-and-environment/fulltext
“[N]o serious effort to remedy the violations have been reported to date. Instead, the emphasis appears to be more focused on identifying current employees at the Sturgis site who may have reported concerns to the Complainant.” https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/04/former-employee-blows-whistle-on-baby-formula-production-plant-tied-to-outbreak/
“But for the times when you need to share you Streamlit applications with the rest of the world or within your company, a more robust and secure approach might be required.” https://medium.com/@thom.e.lane/streamlit-on-aws-a-fully-featured-solution-for-streamlit-deployments-ba32a81c7460
“[P]eople are falling into a trap that technologists have fallen into over and over again: trying to solve social problems purely with technology.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xp8w6n
Sort of, but also spend time agreeing in advance what “successful” means (both for the organization and yourself). Then identify the perceived gaps. Then figure out if you, someone else, or no one should fill them.
“Airbnb faced numerous challenges while accelerating and scaling its value proposition, especially in the evolution of its information systems.” https://medium.com/qe-unit/airbnbs-microservices-architecture-journey-to-quality-engineering-d5a490e6ba4f
“[W]e’re surprised to find ourselves writing an article in which we question whether teams are as practical or as necessary to knowledge work as they once were.” https://hbr.org/2022/04/do-we-still-need-teams
I think a better angle might be, “How to make more hybrid & remote teams more effective” rather than “Because <things>, should teams be eliminated?” 🤷♂️
“The fact is that when EMs work as a team, they can get the benefits of a team. Sounds simple? Well, it isn’t straightforward.” https://engstuff.substack.com/p/anti-pattern-the-ems-group
“I realized that almost everything Dr. Deming was saying was the foundation for lean software, agile, and DevOps. It was even more amazing to know he wrote his 14 Points when he was eighty, ten years before those movements began.” https://www.profound-deming.com/blog-1/ed-rediscovering-a-wwii-statisticianamp-why-we-need-his-ideas-to-survive-the-digital-age
“That means it takes roughly two days to send a message to Voyager 1 and get a response – a delay the mission team is well accustomed to.” https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/engineers-investigating-nasas-voyager-1-telemetry-data
Today is my last day working on the AWS Lambda team. It is definitely not the last day I’ll be working with AWS Lambda though 😀 For the majority of workloads, AWS Lambda remains my default choice. Stay tuned 🍿…
I want to thank everyone who helped me come up speed on Day 1, Lambda, and everything in between. As you might imagine, there’s a _just_ a bit of work behind the scenes to make the magic happen 😉 Also, the team is working on more magic that I look forward to being amazed by…
I’m very proud of the team we’ve built together and what we’ve helped deliver. Some are publicly visible (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-now-supports-up-to-10-gb-ephemeral-storage/), some not so much. All are focused on improving Lambda’s capabilities to address your needs. Please keep your requests flowing, they are heard.
Staying with AWS, switching teams. The AWS Lambda team remains full of smart, humble, focused people that do great work and deserve props. (Also, they aren’t super Twitter-active: ) )
If you’re thinking about Lambda, the future is here: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime , https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
