Jaineil

📍 BOM-SFO-SEA • Software Engineer @amazon • SJSU alum • Prev @coursera • Chelsea FC fanboy 💙

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

At 250 billion DNS cache entries, one wasted byte costs 250 GB of RAM.

Five Rust optimizations later: 100 TB freed, inserts 43% faster, lookups 19% faster.

We didn't trade speed for space. https://t.co/mMyOYnj0mQ

[Jaineil @_jaineil]

@natolambert This is very interesting! I'd love to join

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I haven't read this for about 10 years, but I just looked at it after someone linked to it and I was surprised how many of these things are starting to happen. Still no next Steve Jobs yet though.

https://t.co/YQU7ZxOTwN

[Brett Harrison @BrettHarrison]

In light of today’s SpaceX IPO, a story from inside Jane Street on the day of the 2012 Facebook IPO:

[Chinmay Naik @chinmay185]

Story time.

You are a tech lead who's tasked to backup 1.5TB (yes, not a typo, a terabyte) of data DAILY to S3.

You're not really sure about any other background about this requirement, so you start asking some questions:

1. Where's the data produced from and stored currently?

[dax @thdxr]

Things I've learned engineering at startups:

[annie @soychotic]

Is this how apps inside Docker feel?

[Brenan Keller @brenankeller]

A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd.

First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Netflix botching their Love Is Blind reunion livestream puts into perspective just how amazing it is that Hotstar, an Indian company, boasts the record of 25.3M concurrent views for cricket!

Hotstar senior engineer salaries average ₹36L ($45k) whereas Netflix's is $500k, 10x!!

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The most powerful paradoxes of life:

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Things I know at 42 that I wish I knew at 22:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

It’s Sunday evening and I’m two whiskeys deep.

A few thoughts and counterintuitive truths:

[kai gayoso @kaimeariver]

me: *has been talking about moving to NY all week*

california: lmao

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Those who live for validation can’t keep secrets.

[Tanay Pratap @tanaypratap]

Give yourself a serious 6 month time and effort. You can change your life. Many have.

[Naval Ravikant Quotes @QuotesOfNaval]

"Uncertainty, not outcome, is the root of stress." - @naval

[Jackson Dahl @jacksondahl]

Sometimes at night I just think about getting to drink coffee the next morning

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@patrickc @ashleevance @paraga USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (Congrats, @paraga!)

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

Jeff Bezos teaches you more about high standards in two pages than you'll learn from reading two books. The art of summarising things that resist summary is critical to achieve greatness in almost any field.