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Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by lambrospetrou 2y ago|0 comments
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Principles of Good Web Design (2008)(smashingmagazine.com)
4 points by lambrospetrou 2y ago|1 comments
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What Are Durable Objects?(developers.cloudflare.com)
2 points by lambrospetrou 2y ago|0 comments
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Typography in Ten Minutes(practicaltypography.com)
13 points by lambrospetrou 2y ago|10 comments
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by lambrospetrou 2y ago
Exactly this. DynamoDB is a pain in the ass if you want to do too many relational or arbitrary queries. It's not for data exploration. It is my favourite database though (next to S3)! For cases where my queries are pretty much known up
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Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB (2023)(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
82 points by lambrospetrou 2y ago|60 comments
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Transactions and Scalability in Cloud Databases–Can't We Have Both?(usenix.org)
2 points by lambrospetrou 2y ago|0 comments
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by lambrospetrou 2y ago
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
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Pick One and Own It(longform.asmartbear.com)
2 points by lambrospetrou 2y ago|1 comments
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by lambrospetrou 2y ago
Hurl has been a great choice for the platform too. Zero regrets in choosing that so far. I even converted some colleagues at work to use it :) Looking forward to seeing the more powerful additions to Hurl coming soon!
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Show HN: Skybear.net – A managed platform automating Synthetic HTTP API testing(skybear.net)
6 points by lambrospetrou 2y ago|2 comments
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by lambrospetrou 2y ago
I have also written about my "worklog" [1], what I call my own changelog at work. It's a simple Markdown file, versioned on my own Gitea instance. The worklog contains all notes about everything I spend my time at work. That
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by lambrospetrou 2y ago
I have built a managed platform automating HTTP API testing, at https://www.skybear.net . The core basis is to run your Hurl files. Automatic report persistence, scheduled runs, and multiple files supported with hundreds of reque
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SaaS Pricing – What I want vs. What I offer(lambrospetrou.com)
3 points by lambrospetrou 3y ago|0 comments
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
Just published a new article about "The CI/CD Flywheel". Why it's such a superpower for teams that embrace it, and how it maps to CI/CD pipelines. I dive into the different steps of the CI/CD flywheel, includin
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
I would say that luck in FAANG interviews is much lower than the average tech company. At least in my experience. Don't get me wrong, there is luck involved, and it's a big part of the interview process. But, at least, you have st
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
At Amazon you could become an EM1 by switching internally from SDE2 (L4 at Google/Meta). Also, in other companies like Datadog, Cloudflare, the first level of EM (used to be called Team Lead) is parallel to Senior Engineers.
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
I am the author :) >I can only assume the author has not interviewed many candidates. I did more than 100 interviews so far. >I've lost count of how many tenured engineers I've interviewed who could not write basic code or e
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
>For example, linked list, hash table, DFS and BFS, simple sorting. These are a given. You should know these. When I said I cannot memorize solutions, I refer to memorizing solutions to specific Leetcode problems. Doing that for 1-2 prob
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
>2) practice communicating with people that have very thick Indian or Chinese accents. It will also help in general day to day life Absolutely :) I have that item explicitly in my article, since it happened to me as well being on both si
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
>people don't see me as a manager, for them Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? Do they focus more on your IC experience and reject with the excuse that you don't have a lot of years being a people manager? Or did you m
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
Yeah I thought many times about a standardised interview process. There are pros and cons in such system though. Would the exam be broad or go deep, would it test all kind of coding problems or would there be categories? In a way Big Tech&#
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
I totally agree that at higher levels System Design is required. That's why I have a whole section about System Design in the article. See https://www.lambrospetrou.com/articles/big-tech-software-int... I describe
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
I have actually seen several colleagues jumping into EM roles (Engineering Manager) with just a year of experience being a manager, or even from just being a team lead (technical leader, not manager). In companies that have the first level
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
I agree with this approach. I cannot memorize solutions at all. I can however learn a few techniques and try to pattern match a given problem into those techniques. I do admire folks that can memorize more than a few tens of problems though
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
That's an interesting approach, and indeed I have seen it happen. In some companies though, the interviews are very similar and include coding as well even for managers, so might not be a silver bullet. I do think though that if you ar
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How to pass the interview for software engineering roles in Big Tech(lambrospetrou.com)
66 points by lambrospetrou 3y ago|64 comments
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by lambrospetrou 3y ago
I just finished a (long) article about preparing and passing the software engineering interviews in Big Tech companies! I hope many folks find it useful, and helps them in their next interviews, whenever that is. I did a brain dump of how I
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Fast Feedback Loop and Delayed Gratification(lambrospetrou.com)
1 points by lambrospetrou 3y ago|0 comments
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by lambrospetrou 4y ago
Hmm, I think I saw them before but didn't try it since it's still in very early stages, judging by their documentation. I can see it more like Fly.io competitor, rather than a full platform. At least based on what is in their docs

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