grenbys

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by grenbys 15d ago
Mixed thoughts on this article, here's my take: There's no need to build a Software Factory. Every company already had a software factory in pre-AI – it is a socio-technical system delivering software (e.g. R&D). The input i
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by grenbys 23d ago
What a precious gem that letter is! Eminem's ability to empathise through his lyrics is just unparalleled. And, given the breadth of topics he covered over his career, that empathy "touched" people of all backgrounds. Whether
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by grenbys 1mo ago
Beautifully written! Life aquatic is one of my favorite movies. Coincidentally father-son relationship is the central theme of the movie!
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by grenbys 9mo ago
Engineer at a unicorn SaaS startup: comparing the number of Github PRs for two spikes of my maximum output (had to write a lot of production code for weeks) before and after AI shows 27% increase.
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by grenbys 1y ago
Don’t octopi take a coconut shell with them to cross a patch of sandy sea floor with no place to hide? Pretty advanced sense of future.
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by grenbys 2y ago
My company heavily relies on Amazon SQS for background jobs. We use Redis as well but it is hard to run at scale. Hence, anything critical goes to SQS by default. SQS usage is so ubiquitous I can’t imagine anyone be interested in writing a
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by grenbys 2y ago
I think there are two separate perspectives. For developers Open Telemetry is a clear win - high-quality vendor agnostic instrumentation backed by a reputable orgs. I instrumented with traces many business critical repos at my company (majo
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by grenbys 4y ago
I've been rinsing my mouth after brushing my teeth my whole life. Turns out you should not. Logically, why even buy that expensive toothpaste only to negate all its positive impact by rinsing it away?
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by grenbys 4y ago
Would be great if the timeline covered 19 minutes of 6:32 – 06:51. How long did it take to get the right people on the call? How long did it take to identify deployment as a suspect? Another massive gap is the rollback: 6:58 – 7:42 – 44 min
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by grenbys 5y ago
I think blaming the slide/presentation is severely affected by the hindsight bias - of course, knowing the outcomes, we can find loads of issues with the slide. More importantly, it is always easy to declare a "human factor"