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by striglia 10mo ago
I find this infra perspective so fascinating, as a career-long product platform engineer and solidly staff+. I don't argue that sean's writing (which is amazing) is a little overly mercenary in framing, but I'll pick a few ch
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by striglia 7y ago
Finally, I cannot wait! This sure sounds like it should remove the terrifying guesswork of wondering what the actual quota values are, detecting when you're approaching a limit, and starting to automate or at least alleviate the pain o
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Is Conference Speaking Worthwhile?(maltzj.com)
1 points by striglia 7y ago|0 comments
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by striglia 7y ago
Strong agree -- the distribution was a solid deal when it happened and didn't require a paywall. I just gave up on them ( http://www.locallyoptimal.com/blog/2019/03/24/publish-indepe... ) now that the
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by striglia 8y ago
Inherited a codebase that ran nearly all revenue-critical operations, and operated at its core on some of the most metaclassy/dynamic tools Python has at its disposal. Luckily I work in a tech company where the fact that nobody knew th
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Making technical decisions when you can't know the right answer(medium.com)
1 points by striglia 8y ago|0 comments
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Building self-healing, observable systems with AWS Step Functions(medium.com)
2 points by striglia 8y ago|0 comments
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by striglia 8y ago
Great to see open source tooling around Step Functions. Personally I'm still holding out for someone taking the States language spec ( https://states-language.net/spec.html ) and turning out higher-level tooling for writ
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by striglia 9y ago
What makes you say Step Functions isn't ready for prime time? We've been using it (and SWF which it is based off) for about a year at decent scale and been generally very happy with it.
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by striglia 10y ago
Exactly -- and I guess my question is whether there is any reason to believe they won't succeed :(
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by striglia 10y ago
So I ask this mostly out of horrified curiosity -- is there any negative press or revelation that could actually sink Uber at this point? What would it take for the company to fail? We've seen: * Systematic flouting of laws in public *
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by striglia 10y ago
Very much looking forward to an upcoming project with Step Functions at $DAYJOB. I suspect there are many use cases for turning complicated intersections of batch jobs and blobs of code into discrete, independent tasks like SFN requires. Pa
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by striglia 10y ago
Is it possible to accept an activity task with no timeout, store the state in a DB, then when your event occurs, load state from the DB and send the task_success signal? Not convenient, but seems feasible..
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by striglia 10y ago
As someone currently at the "prove it's a good idea" stage of moving production from SWF to SFN, I'm happy to hear it's been such a good experience in practice! I think I'm mostly excited to stop locally repres
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by striglia 10y ago
By far the most frustrating part of blogging for me (though certainly not the only one) is the assumption that no one will ever see it. I can probably solve this by options I dislike -- giving up ownership to Medium or obnoxiously cross-pos
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Excellent, deep series on Uber's Ponzi-scheme economics(boingboing.net)
4 points by striglia 10y ago|1 comments
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Elegant n-gram generation in Python(locallyoptimal.com)
22 points by striglia 12y ago|5 comments
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by striglia 12y ago
Cool article. I really like repetition that model complexity is not a pancea. Seems like the industrial AI/ML movement as a whole has gone down a road where practitioners will, by default, throw the most powerful model they know at a p
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There is no such thing as magic(locallyoptimal.com)
3 points by striglia 13y ago|0 comments
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by striglia 13y ago
This is exactly what the posted article doesn't do though, and I really appreciate that. In fact it's absurdly rare to see someone share their success story while owning up to the fact that it 1) may not be universal 2) was not
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by striglia 13y ago
I think you underestimate the importance of context in all of this. You can't build any of these products well without knowing (deeply and certainly) users' patterns. Microsoft has no realistic way of knowing when it routes you to
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by striglia 13y ago
You're comparing them on uneven terms. Show me one company besides Google that can even stack up to what Apple's done in Maps or with Siri. There's none. That's because both require amazing amount of expertise, money, an
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by striglia 13y ago
When I started working in SF (moving from the Los Angeles area) I had great luck renting a temporary place and apartment hunting after work hours. I used AirBnB but you would be fine with any approach...the point is that apartment hunting i
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Sins of the Test(locallyoptimal.com)
1 points by striglia 14y ago|0 comments
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by striglia 14y ago
At the same time, I think it's worth noting that a disturbing amount of the criticism made within the programming sphere is not aimed at solving a problem, but rather exposing the obvious wrongness of the original product and its author(s).
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by striglia 14y ago
Most of the locations here are probably sourced directly from their data providers they list, including Acxiom and Factual. At this scale, they probably haven't geocoded each place themselves. What experience I've had with those data source
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by striglia 14y ago
Love the presentation of the various API calls in each language. My only nitpick is one I have for a lot of code displays like this -- selecting the code also selects line numbers =)
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by striglia 14y ago
Google has spent a long time pouring a ton of money and manpower into their geocoder and the data behind it. It's completely unsurprising that Apple is not able to match their quality. It will be an iterative process that improves as they g
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by striglia 15y ago
This seems like a useless statement. Surely no one is consciously failing people they know fit the team and can perform the job. The whole point of interviews is noisily assessing these things. Point me at a reliable, cost-efficient way of
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by striglia 15y ago
Always cool to see articles trying to tease apart correlation from causation. That said, I am automatically suspicious of any publications mentioning power laws, since they make for attractive stories and can easily be fit to data which is

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