In our ever changing distributed world, there are lots of ways for applications and services to communicate. Which means there are lots of ways to break them as they inevitably evolve.
Good tips for backwards and forwards compatibility in distributed systems from the team at StackOverflow.
We all automatically gravitate towards the assumption that we are justified by our level of sanctification, and when this posture is adopted, it inevitably focuses our attention not on Christ but on the adequacy of our own obedience. We start each day with our personal security not resting on the accepting love of God and the sacrifice of Christ but on our present feelings or recent achievements in the Christian life. Since these arguments will not quiet the human conscience, we are inevitably moved either to discouragement and apathy or to a self-righteousness...which falsifies the record to achieve a sense of peace...
— Richard Lovelace
Since we often end up in the land of novel technology, we owe it to ourselves and our customers to be boring in other ways. And the most important way that a Platform team can be boring is by writing boring plans.
I have quoted this article more times than I can count at work since I read it.
Nautical, mystical and the de facto shade of several social networks, blue is a color that has deep cultural cachet, while being nearly impossible to find in nature. The blues that abound in nature — a butterfly, a navy beetle, even blue eyes — are not natively blue, according to scientists, but instead are reflections of light, the impression of blue.
A source has provided another data set, this time following the smartphones of thousands of Trump supporters, rioters and passers-by in Washington, D.C., on January 6, as Donald Trump's political rally turned into a violent insurrection. At least five people died because of the riot at the Capitol. Key to bringing the mob to justice has been the event's digital detritus: location data, geotagged photos, facial recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing.
That first week shooting was literally a kinda preschool. I've never had any job where so many - of the finest professionals in the world at what they do - would show up on a given day and, honest to God, they didn't have it right what's happening in that scene. That's no slur, no call on anybody, it's just that complicated and that different from movies that came before.
— Nilo Otero, First Assistant Director, Tenet
Despite all the talk of people leaving the Bay Area during the pandemic, only a small fraction of residents have left the state, suggesting that reports of an exodus have been exaggerated, according to a Chronicle analysis of United States Postal Service data.
"I think of it as the Ring doorbell of [Automated License Plate Recognition]," Sergeant JT Maultsby from the Raleigh Police Department wrote in one July 2019 email to colleagues.
Oh, please no.
As every senior engineer will tell you, the longer your career, the more you understand that technology is rarely the "hard part." People, processes, working within teams, prioritizing and sequencing work, are what will trip you up.
Eco-Baby, TrailBuddy, Quility and TapeKing aren't exactly household names, but they're working on it. Their products are among the most popular in their categories on Amazon, accounting for millions of dollars in yearly sales.
They're also owned and operated by a single company called Thrasio, which recently raised $750 million in financing. It's just one among dozens of firms snapping up successful Amazon brands for millions of dollars.