Kushal

Compute at @digitalocean. Previously @aws Compute, AI, and Reliability Engineering. Opinions are my own.

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

a lot of learning is rabbit holes. you hit a concept you don’t know, disappear for 10 mins, then try to come back without losing the thread. if @OpenAI had a finder-style workspace with conversations side by side and attention switching between them, it would 10x productivity.

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

@AniC_dev happy shipping 🚢

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

@emirbeganovic What a story, Emir. From BHLD CDs in Sarajevo to Head of Infrastructure at Omarchy. Congrats! 🎉 Isorun's "computers as a resource" idea resonates deeply.

We just launched DigitalOcean MicroVMs on the same belief, and we'd love your take: https://t.co/oyZS4MElJz

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

Introducing DigitalOcean MicroVMs: isolated VMs that pause when idle & resume instantly. AI agents work in bursts. Stop wasting cycles building custom virtualization layers for fast startup & isolation.

We handle the infra, so you can build!
https://t.co/S0VcpoetYL

[Ray Mackey Photo @RayMackeyNL]

Change Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador. #explorenl #exploreCanada #Newfoundland #Canada

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Fascinating HN comment from someone who's company built a custom distributed data warehouse using compressed SQLite DB files in S3 that were queried using Lambda functions orchestrated by PostgreSQL running a custom foreign data wrapper https://t.co/gvRviN8D9R

[Ilya Epshteyn @IlyaEpshteyn]

Also check out this awesome video on how to craft data perimeter policies with these keys: https://t.co/MTtH08YrI2

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

@mikekarnj We didn't use A/B tests to make the iPhone at Apple.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

20 of the smartest things that have ever been said: 🧵

[Karol Wójcik @FieryCodDev]

Yesterday at @Retailic, we transitioned our REST API running: Ring, Next.jdbc, Pathom3 from regular servers to AWS Lambda on ARM64 Graviton 2 processor by adding a 110LOC of code to adapt the Ring request/response model to AWS Lambda model. 🧵
#serverless #AWS #Oracle #Clojure

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Productionization new languages at Google is a lot of work. As a person who witnessed two attempts, this thread is what I learned. Google has an incubation policy for new languages. You start by being experimental, then become incubator and then graduate to a canonical language.

[Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct]

Papers published by Facebook on traffic engineering over the years are really phenomenal.

- Kraken, 2016 - https://t.co/dOjDI4PMVT
- Maelstrom, 2018 https://t.co/BOWMUdvTMk
- Taiji, 2019 https://t.co/tgfU2IY2CN
- Zero downtime deploys, 2020 https://t.co/6NzFj90WL5

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

@MerrittBaer @pgrassi So cool! Amazing work! 💯

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

@chetanp Post deployment Sima aunty be like “Everything in life is compromise.”😂😂 There’s a Sima aunty version for every phase of the product lifecycle..

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

@nicolefv “I need 3 degrees not even 2” and “who doesn’t know bolivia has salt flats” killed me 😂 Aparna and her mom are epic!

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

@nicolefv @wilpannell Bear down! 🐻 ⬇️

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

Here's an amazing mental model I learned recently for building scalable systems:
You can never be confident of reducing the probability of mean time to failure (MTTF) at a big scale (esp AWS), but you can put all your weight behind reducing the mean time to recovery(MTTR)!

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

@chetanp @sketch Those are some hi-fidelity memes! 🍺🍺😂

[Kushal @basiliskhorn]

@chetanp It’s hard to know if its the actual slide or you photoshopped it! 😅