Grivan Thapar

[Abhishek Bhardwaj @abshkbh]

Today, I'm excited to launch Arrakis: an open-source and self-hostable sandboxing service designed to let AI Agents execute code and operate a GUI securely.

GitHub: https://t.co/BXuzxWEJxE

Watch Claude code a live Google Docs clone using Arrakis. Having a VM sets it free -🧵

[Mahesh Balakrishnan @maheshb]

Very glad nobody said this to the teams that built Spanner, Aurora. Or in research: Hyder, Calvin. Or rather I’m sure someone/everyone did, but they didn’t listen. Maybe this statement is missing a caveat?

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Dumb question here: Amazon invests $4 billion into Anthropic.

Anthropic spends it all on AWS, probably due to screwing up a Managed NAT Gateway config.

Did AWS segment revenue just skyrocket? And if so, will the analysts realize what’s going on?

[Marc Brooker @MarcJBrooker]

The internet is talking about retries and backoff! As we've seen over the last day or so, simply retrying without backoff leads to an unbounded increase in work. This, in turn, tends to make overloaded systems even more overloaded. What can we do instead?

[EFF @EFF]

New York City is in the process of dismantling low-cost community broadband infrastructure in public housing that, if supported, could provide quality access to the internet for hundreds of thousands of families. https://t.co/rbmHyG9kS8

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Holy shit. How is this the first time I am reading https://t.co/m976D3riuK by @apenwarr? It is the best thing I have ever read on systems architecture, design thinking, and maybe engineering levels too. 🤯🔥

On engineers whose systems thinking skills surpass their coding skills:

[Eric Wastl @ericwastl]

#AdventOfCode calendar is now up! What could it be?!? See you in a little over 100 hours to find out! https://t.co/bDIPRWZupr

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

@trengriffin Total retention cost / customers retained = $100 / 0.5 = $200

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

Attending #QConSanFrancisco this October to learn the emerging trends and practices in software development! https://t.co/YkmKHVH1gS

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

Downsides of a "pragmatic" engineer - for someone who may enjoy specializing, focusing on being a pragmatic can lead to a generalist career, aka jack of all trades. High functioning software teams require a mix of pragmatics and specialists.

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

@BrandonLive @rakyll Fair, however it’s equally important to realize your drift and course correct if necessary. Please don’t become the architect who architects and leaves.

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

6/n Both have their own benefits and should be used as necessary. Both methods infact explain the Canary in Coal Mine narrative. :-)

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

1/n TIL the difference between Canary Deployment and Canary Testing.

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

5/n For example one feature flagging platform specifically calls out to use their service for Canary Testing. Which is… a questionable practice.

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

@colmmacc Having a way to limit the amount of work that comes in the front door. Cascading failures, metastable failures, etc make it very hard to bring systems back to operating “normally”

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Grivan Thapar @grivan]

@willdalycodes it’s a pain every time to plug things in. i’ve resorted to using the device “headless” whenever i am trying things out.