Scaling Large Production Clusters with Partitioned Synchronization , USENIX ATC 2021. One of the “best paper” award winners. In this paper, researchers from Alibaba and Chinese University of Hong Kong
(Watch videos of me presenting this material at PyCon Canada or PyCon US .) Imagine you are a creator deity, designing a body for a creature. In your benevolence, you wish for the creature to evolve o
If you’re my colleague and you want to trigger my most ferocious pet peeve, ask me to explain something that I’ve already written down. My first response will be a terse link to the docs. I won’t say
It’s hard for me to change my mind. I’m impatient, so when given a choice, like which taco to order, which car to buy, which candidate to hire, I want to decide quickly and then find reasons not to re
Transcript It was so nice at the beginning of the last meditation period, listening to Bokushu and Seizan giving beginning meditation instruction to some of the newcomers. I first received meditation
We waste our lives chasing temporary, superficial things, and our disappointment leads to grief. Here’s a practice that loosens greed’s grip on our minds, and frees us to appreciate this moment. Video
(Cross-posted from Red Hat’s OpenSource.com.) When I was six years old I had a music box. I’d wind it up, and a ballerina revolved on top of the box while a mechanism inside plinked out “Twinkle Twink
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TL;DR: The baseline for web development in 2022 is: low-spec Android devices in terms of performance, Safari from two years before in terms of Web Standards, and 4G in terms of networks. The web in ge
Stuff I said at Kansas City StartupWeekend that sounded smart I rarely get the chance to try out words of wisdom on real people beforeI present them to you here. So when I post something, it might tur
Explore B ecause you are reading these words, it’s safe to say you possess consciousness—that magic of awareness that you are alive and awake, and that you are you, not somebody else. Consciousness is
This post is part of a new experiment; I'm toying with the idea of writing a concise and approachable "folk textbook" covering the conceptual basics of what I do; using Linux and other operating syste
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