steviesands

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by steviesands 4y ago
API gateways are primarily used for HTTP traffic coming from clients external to your backend services eg. an iOS device (hence the term 'gateway' vs. 'mesh'). I don't think they support thrift or grpc (at least aws
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by steviesands 4y ago
Counterpoint to the Clarendon vs. DC. IMO Clarendon bars are chock full of college frat bros with next to no diversity, while DC is more of a mixed scene.
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by steviesands 4y ago
As someone who moved from DC proper to NYC, DC is nowhere near NYC in terms of expenses. In 14th St or Logan circle you can get a brand new 2BR for the price of an old tiny, dilapidated 1BR in an equivalent area in NYC. You can likely even
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by steviesands 4y ago
If you are interested in the genuine impacts and not a hyperbolic, emotionally charged discussion best left to pundits, then below are some areas I would suggest researching and conducting your own thought experiments. A good exercise is to
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by steviesands 4y ago
I read it a while ago and while I can't recall what was said exactly, I remember how I felt while reading it and how strong it was. The mark of a good book.
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by steviesands 4y ago
How did you achieve 4 days a week? Curious to hear about your strategy.
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by steviesands 4y ago
If your goal is maintenance mode for the company, milk profits for 10 years, and to be eventually replaced by competitors then I think you can run a company very slim. The other question would be, if you have captured a large market share (
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by steviesands 4y ago
Can you elaborate on budgets realigned? Wouldn't that have happened in Q4 for the new year?
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by steviesands 4y ago
Interesting, 80% seems a bit on the higher end nowadays though? For example, Google quantified this as the "datacenter tax" and through their cluster wide profiling tooling saw that it was 22-27% of all CPU cycles (still a huge am
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by steviesands 4y ago
A few thoughts. The first is, are we asking the wrong questions? Should it be, "If I spend 10m on hardware for predicting ads (storage/compute) that generates 25m in revenue, should I buy the hardware?". Sure, we can "mi
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The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale (2017)(blog.twitter.com)
1 points by steviesands 4y ago|0 comments
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Which cloud platform is the best to quickly build a CRUD app?
1 points by steviesands 4y ago|1 comments
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Twitter's high ROI engineering work(twitter.com)
27 points by steviesands 4y ago|12 comments
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by steviesands 4y ago
Is this how it works at most companies where new budget leads to new headcount and hiring in January? Is it due to an annual process?
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by steviesands 4y ago
I checked a few days ago and the revenue per employee at big tech is eerily similar to "Biglaw" and non retail banking (Jones day, >200k entry level, goldman is similar) at 1-2mil per employee. One could argue the market for IB
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by steviesands 4y ago
Interestingly revenue per employee (1.2 - 1.8 mil per employee) at biglaw companies is similar to FAANG although i'd guess biglaw margins are higher as you have less other costs (infra). https://www.law.com/law-firm-pro
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by steviesands 4y ago
Does this logic work for lawyers? "Biglaw" firms are similar to FAANG in that it is a handful of companies that offer very high comp (235k for first year). There is a deluge of folks that apply from all universities to biglaw but
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What are Metas plans for expanding their datacenters for AI?
1 points by steviesands 4y ago|0 comments
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by steviesands 4y ago
Maybe you could provide links, examples, or helpful context instead of snark?
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by steviesands 4y ago
Twitter has ads serving infra, recommendation systems (timeline, notifications, events, users), user generated events, prediction systems (ads), user graphs. The complexity is from processing and persisting exabytes of data in company owned