Finished moving over the last bits and pieces today, on Brexit day. After more than 5 years, London is no longer home, heading back to Belgium. It has been a pleasure!
@KevinGiszewski I might be missing something but there’s no real need for the if/else? dictionary[key] = value will do the trick regardless whether the key exists or not?
An incredible paper on the internals of FaaS offerings. https://t.co/lGYkC4KHwA
- AWS lambda achieved the best scalability.
- only about 50% of the expected number of instances could be co-launched on GCF, where memory size had a greater impact on coldstart latency than on AWS.
Jepsen now offers an explorable version of @pbailis et al's map of consistency models, with detailed explanations and links to relevant papers: https://t.co/GLAz8VaAA6
Congratulations to our partner @spencer_works for their nomination for the Tech Startup of the year. 👏You can show your support by voting for Spencer here: https://t.co/w3K2iCbFQ7 https://t.co/VVhNBrTbOH
so, you avoid vendor lock-in by building your own. and then later realize you still have vendor lock-in, but you're the vendor, and there are no other customers. oops.
I believe we wrongly shield engineers from budget and financial management. I became a much more effective technologist once I learned how the business *actually* works.