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A batch of the best highlights from what Josh's read, .
I like the idea that even as our chips and disks get faster, enhancements are simultaneously being pushed through on the software level through the likes of io_uring. So even while every newly available hardware cycle in web or mobile apps is immediately burned away through increasingly deep stacks of JavaScript nonsense, at least our databases and server software should be getting strictly faster.
It eventually got bulldozed by multiple attempts of normalizing over Go practices, which essentially leave you on your own whenever it comes to operational aspects of the development cycle, and then containerization took over and the whole pipeline was voided of ways to do the nice stateful thing that saves everyone hours of rollouts and draining and reconnection storms with state losses.
A Pipeline Made of Airbags
ferd.ca
This is somewhat elementary and handwavy napkin analysis of a complicated business which, like most casinos and hotels, is heavily levered with a complex capital stack. But the investment case gets smothered by a napkin.
A Very Chicago Gamble
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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