Most of Slack runs on a monolithic service simply called “The Webapp”. It’s big – hundreds of developers create hundreds of changes every week.
Deploying at this scale is a unique challenge. When people talk about continuous deployment, they’re often thinking about deploying to systems as soon as…
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These four, if practiced together, are genuinely a lethal combination that will kill procrastination. Published in Better Humans · 5 min read · Sep 19, 2022 -- You don’t lack time. You just waste most
Practical distributed applications are deployed into varied environmentsand execute on a variety of different machines linked together overa variety of communication infrastructure. The physical machi
The theory of distributed systems promoted the use of logical clocks by introducing the idea ofcausality tracking as an abstraction for reasoning about concurrencybetween events in the system. In prac
As a software system scales it becomes sufficiently large that the numberof working parts, coupled with the number of working programmers makingchanges on it, makes the behaviour of the system extreme
In the book âThinking in Systemsâ, Donella Meadows dedicates an entirechapter to explaining why functioning systems seem to work so well. In it,she recognizes three characteristics: resilience, se
When people describe progress, they often describe it in terms of a linearprogression taking us from primitive to advanced â an idea or inventionoccurs as a singular event, and somewhere further dow
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, whic
Published in Google Cloud - Community · 8 min read · Sep 14, 2022 -- As infrastructure-as-code dominates more and more organizations, the process of code development has also been evolving. This new s
Published in FAUN — Developer Community 🐾 · 3 min read · Sep 13, 2022 -- Over the years Kubernetes has become the go to platform for running container workloads. By default, Kubernetes uses rolling up
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At GitHub, we’re continually working to improve existing features and shipping new ones all the time. From our launch of GitHub Discussions to the release of manual approvals for GitHub Actions—in ord
I think the concept of an Observability Team within tech companies is relatively new. Or, maybe it's been around for awhile, but as a part time focus of a broad Production Engineering or SRE group, no
There's no credit system for IOPS - you can use up to the amount provisioned for the volume. You can provision more IOPS and throughput separately at needed!
To read an annotated version of this article, complete with interviews with scientists and links to further reading, click here . I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise, w
A new study claims networks of observers are responsible for determining physical reality. The scientists propose that observers generate the structures of time and space. The paper could help yield i
Pavan Belagatti Follow Dec 31, 2019 · 7 min read How Kubernetes works? In Kubernetes, there is a master node and multiple worker nodes, each worker node can handle multiple pods. Pods are just a bunch
In his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster , Bill Gates takes a technology-centered approach to understanding the climate crisis. Gates begins with the 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases that
businessweek Trying to Stay Optimistic Is Doing More Harm Than Good No more FONO. How to recognize and break the habit of “toxic positivity.” By January 14, 2021, 4:42 AM EST Corrected January 15, 202
Coinbase Follow Jan 6, 2020 · 9 min read Cryptocurrency’s promise is to make money and payments universally accessible– to anyone, no matter where they are in the world. The Decentralized Finance (DeF
Anarchism in Greece traces its roots to ancient Greece but was formed as a political movement during the 19th century. It was in the ancient era that the first libertarian thoughts appeared when philo
Essential Patterns of Vault — Part 2 Jake Lundberg Jul 28, 2019 · 14 min read In Part 1 of this series, I laid out the abstract Essential Patterns of Vault . In this part, we’ll dive deep into pilotin
Essential Patterns of Vault — Part 1 Jake Lundberg Jun 24, 2019 · 7 min read Learning HashiCorp Vault can be a daunting task when approached for the first time. While Vault can seem quite difficult on
Editor’s note: Today is the third installment in a seven-part video and blog series from Google Developer Advocate Sandeep Dinesh on how to get the most out of your Kubernetes environment. Distributed
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Contents Work in progress : I still need to clean this up & add the complete source code. ETA for a more or less done version is Soon(TM). Last updated : 2020/09/10 because how the eff did this end up
Ryan McGeehan Aug 7, 2019 · 11 min read This is a bit of a status report for my progress towards a better industrial approach towards cyber security risk. Contents Work I’ve done! Experiences so far a
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, a mining magnate who had gifted the land on whic
S ome of the most perplexing topics in physics revolve around quantum theory. The quandary is seen most famously in the Schrödinger’s cat question and the issue of information loss in black hole evapo
James Kettle Director of Research @albinowax Published: 07 August 2019 at 21:00 UTC Updated: 18 November 2020 at 12:40 UTC Abstract HTTP requests are traditionally viewed as isolated, standalone entit
Sarah Perry is a contributing editor of Ribbonfarm. A cognitive phenomenon that can happen to you (if you are unlucky, perhaps) is known as depersonalization or derealization . It is a mild relative o