as an AI obsessive and long-time @ezraklein fan, I was excited to see yesterday's podcast with @GaryMarcus.
Unfortunately, as I listened, my excitement gave way to frustration, and I felt compelled to write my first-ever megathread.
Quotes from: https://t.co/ePWGXvaoMc
I’m rejecting the career ladder metaphor in favor of the career river. Here’s why:
1. The ultimate goal of the career ladder is: reach the top.
The ultimate goal of the career river is: reach your ocean - a thriving, wide-open ecosystem fed by other rivers to explore. /
There is no one true architecture. All architectures (including µServices) are appropriate in some contexts and not in others. There is no case for or against any architecture that’s devoid of context. Architecture is all about tradeoffs in specific contexts.
Modern architects design the organization along with its tech. Luckily we know more about org design than we might think:
The biggest throughput killer in distributed systems is a synchronization point. In orgs that's called a meeting. Same effect!
Ride the #architectelevator
I'm so proud to be part of this team! Confectionery is the culmination of several months to build a library of validations for Terraform and realize our Policy-as-Code vision, by moving all the Infra checks to pipelines.
Excited to announce the release of Confectionery! It is a rule library to detect misconfigurations in terraform files. We've been leveraging this internally for a while and are excited to share this with the wider community! https://t.co/9rSEfpehkx
I am told that while he loved his time at BVP he recently learned that the sudden lack of operating leaders named Jeff at Amazon risked opening a rift between worlds that threatened all of humanity.