Hyperscalers, such as Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent, have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud, Web, or mobile services to their global users. And though most practitioners may not directly build such hyperscale infrastructure, we believe it is…

When I interview executives, or talk to go-to-market leaders, or investors, or basically anyone who thinks of themselves as a master of the business universe, I always struggle to articulate Sentry’s approach. We’re an enterprise technology company, except we have more than 50,000 paying customers.…

tl;dr: Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes AI researchers made in the past. Better AI models will enable general purpose AI applications. At the same time, the added value of the software around the AI model will diminish.…

A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you? 1600 people answered, and I decided to spend a few days categorizing all the responses. Along the way I learned that classifying…

(chapter taken from Learning Power) From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work JEAN ANYON It's no surprise that schools in wealthy communities are better than those in poor communities, or that they better prepare their students for desirable jobs. It may be shocking, however, to learn how…

I wouldn't dare run strace(1) in production without seriously considering the consequences, and first trying the alternates. While it's widely known (and continually rediscovered) that strace is an amazing tool, it's much less known that it currently is – and always has been – dangerous. strace is…

Pirates and Privateers The History of Maritime Piracy Cindy Vallar, Editor & Reviewer P. O. Box 425, Keller, TX 76244-0425 Home Pirate Articles Pirate Links Book Reviews Thistles & Pirates Superstitions and the Sea By Cindy Vallar The Oxford Universal Dictionary (third edition) defines…

Term referring to heightened tensions in the 21st century "Cold War 2" and "New Cold War" redirect here. For other uses, see Cold War II (disambiguation) and The New Cold War. A Second Cold War, Cold War II, or the New Cold War has been used to describe heightened geopolitical tensions in the 21st…

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I'm excited to share that there are eight newly promoted subsystem maintainers for Ghostty. These are the first maintainers to be promoted since the project's creation, and I'm thrilled to see the project grow in this way. Adding additional, independent maintainers is an important part of any open…

↑ Notes On ↑ Disaggregated OLTP Systems Posted 2024-12-0525 minute reading time Mandatory Legal Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer. These notes were first prepared for an informal presentation on the various cloud-native…