Kyle Thompson

Codes and footballs and stuff. Principal Architect, Head of Engineering @ Kainos

[Kelly Sommers @kellabyte]

You asked for longer rants, so here are longer rants! After almost 10 years I'm back to blogging. Thanks for the encouragement.

Link below in the thread 🔻

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

Next you'll be telling us that they didn't have appropriate permission for all the training data that was hoovered up!

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

It's amazing (in a depressing way) how many unit tests are still just testing that a mock returns the exact thing you set it up to return . Please stop.

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

If today you find yourself typing 'as a father of daughters' or 'now that I have daughters' stop right there. Instead spend the time actively listening. The stories of inequality and abuse are everywhere.

[Will Hamill @willhamill]

It is in the interests of big AI CEOs and investors to spout fabulous assertions like this. This serves 3 purposes: hyping the tech they're selling, distracting from immediate questions about accountability by shifting to a philosophical discussion, implying we need to accept it.

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

Our System Design 101 GitHub repo has just reached 18,000 stars in 4 days. It's probably one of the fastest-growing repos in history.

Thanks to everyone who has starred, forked, or contributed to the repository!

What's included in the GitHub repository:
- 100 byte-sized system concepts with visuals.
- Real-world case studies.
- Tips on how to prepare for system design interviews.

Topics included (and many many more):
- SOAP vs. REST vs. GraphQL vs. RPC
- HTTP 1.0 -> HTTP 1.1 -> HTTP 2.0 -> HTTP 3.0 (QUIC)
- CI/CD Pipeline Explained in Simple Terms
- 8 Data Structures That Power Your Databases
- Top caching strategies
- What does a typical microservice architecture look like?

If you like our content, consider starring the repo: https://t.co/wB7lUh2Gol

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

We've got an API!

The API : documentation of database schema and a connection string

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

Hey we had this awesome tournament highlighting female talent in eSports, how do I make it all about men?

[lepan @Lepandk]

For a tournament meant to highlight women in esports how did they allowed every single team to have a 6th person(male) coach them on comms? Ridiculous

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

A little chat from the inspirational @Cmdr_Hadfield was a pretty spectacular way to start the day

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

@willhamill

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

Once again I am asking you not to create custom response codes for things that already exist in http

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

Writing more efficient code / designing efficient systems is a great way to improve the sustainability of software, I suspect there's a much bigger gain to be had in not building features that nobody needs / uses or are a vanity project of someone with a fancy job title...

[David Whitney @david_whitney]

"If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease, I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people"

- Satoru Iwata

https://t.co/hYHxim9wQM

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

That is if you want high speed, you must build high quality systems. If you want high quality systems, you must build them quickly as a series of small changes.
This is what the data says, and when you stop and think about this, the reasons are pretty clear.
11/17

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

"in house developed dependancy injection framework"

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

Got my preorder in today for this excellent looking book, great to see this coming out of the NI tech scene as well, can't wait to get stuck in!

[The Serverless Edge @ServerlessEdge]

What is the value flywheel? https://t.co/Ep3majcxI6

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

@willhamill

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

Disabling a major security feature should definitely have an automated test somewhere screaming its head off

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

"Very good developers with world class habits" is a great description of what makes the best teams that we've worked with

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

Unpicking the idea of “Rockstar developers” and comparing them to how effective, high-performing, teams work 🆚

Watch the FULL video HERE ➡️ https://t.co/xj4FTxmKHS

[Kyle Thompson @kylethompson86]

Please no, make it stop