any coder worth its keyboard weight in .. (some substance that you like) out there that uses S3, should know how S3 works, and now you can know a little bit more because of this USENIX Association FAST'23 talk:

youtube.com/watch?v=sc3J4M…

#spinningrust #erasureencoding #cloud #storage

Note that government bid documents often spell waterfall as “Agile.”

And with this imaginary plane the face of the stone can be defined by a circumference of edges (or arrises) that lay flat, without twist. From this imaginary plane, other planes can be squared; the stone can be given parallel top and bottom beds, and ends perpendicular to these.

Ireland EPFL Passenger Locator Form travel.eplf.gov.ie/en/verify email/phone verification field is returning a 500 Internal Server Error for every phone number and email address. Just me? Irish Foreign Ministry

This analysis seems to me to be profoundly misguided. The supposed 'cloud paradox' is that cloud is cheap early on but then later gets expensive enough that it's worth repatriating* workloads on-prem. a16z.com/2021/05/27/cos…

Internal Combustion Engine – ciechanow.ski/internal-combu…

scattered-thoughts.net/writing/intern…

Eventual consistency is not sufficient for unwindowed operations in streaming systems. Ksqldb and flink suffer severe and persistent errors. Internal consistency restores the intuition we're used to from kv databases.

I wrote an article about BPF and Linux perf 🎉

The article includes step-by-step debugging with flame graphs, and many nitty-gritty details that tie themselves together at the end (i promise!).

#bpf #ebpf #linux

doordash.engineering/2021/04/01/exa…

lldp sniff: $ ip -o link show up | while read -a L; do N=${L[1]/:}; timeout 30 tcpdump -c1 -evi $N ether proto 0x88cc |& tee $N & done

Mob programming is a meeting where the minutes are executable.

New post! Databases hold a special place in the hearts of operations folks. ClickHouse deserves a spot in your toolbelt for analytics use cases. #DevOps nedmcclain.com/why-devops-lov…

Interesting paper on databases & fast SSD from CIDR2020. I learned a few things and like how they presented results at a high level. Recipe for fast DBMS IO is: array of fast SSD, SW RAID, XFS, O_DIRECT, fdatasync and io_uring.

cidrdb.org/cidr2020/paper…

If you really want to, you can use X.509 client certificates to authenticate your Chrome browser to AWS. See my new post 'Using AWS IoT for mutual TLS in a web application' link.medium.com/zjRGXYKaJ9

Checking some sessions from NANOG77, one of the alltime best sessions is the 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Optical Networking –
But Were Afraid to Ask' session with Richard Steenbergen. pc.nanog.org/static/publish… #NANOG

Finally releasing my #AWS account controller solution, which creates an AWS SSO application for federated users to create or delete ephemeral / sandbox accounts. 🙌

github.com/iann0036/aws-a…

'Analysts write dbt models, data engineers figure out how to run them'

New image of the week from my upcoming book on Matplotlib and scientific visualization. See github.com/rougier/scient…
#dataviz #python

1/ How about an Ethernet history lesson? And a story about why I'm responsible for one of the most hated features of SunOS!