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by vshan 5y ago
"How many of you are from consulting? Oh that's bad. You should do something. No seriously, I don't think there nothing inherently evil in consulting, I think that without owning something over an extended period of time, lik
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by vshan 5y ago
I'd argue the opposite really, re: 'using C/C++ at all is probably "too clever"'. By using modern C++ features it is possible to enforce a Rust-like model of ownership, without any memory management (eg. we don
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by vshan 5y ago
The weed work is the most painful though. We get through it at work because we have to. But for any personal hobby projects, I feel nails scraping blackboard level of frustration when some build issue or other trivial minutiae come up.
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Azure Responds to COVID-19(youtu.be)
1 points by vshan 6y ago|0 comments
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by vshan 6y ago
I so wish all of this content was public. How lovely would it be for skill development if all of us had access to these assignments and projects with auto-graded tests.
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by vshan 7y ago
Yes, I've had the opportunity to contribute to some existing projects but I've been limited to making feature contributions. I feel like my "system design" skills don't get exercised as much which is why I wanted to
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by vshan 7y ago
Could you please point me to any which don't have a turn-key solution like Etcd for Raft (and also have a need like consensus is a need for most distributed applications)?
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Ask HN: Ideas for projects like Etcd, traefik
2 points by vshan 7y ago|5 comments
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by vshan 7y ago
Distributed Systems!
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Orchestrating One Million Containers(youtube.com)
1 points by vshan 7y ago|0 comments
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by vshan 7y ago
I feel the opposite way. When I was studying at university, I found it quite hard to motivate myself to do boring assignments, but after joining a BigCo and talking to customers who are direct beneficiaries of my work, it is much more rewar
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by vshan 7y ago
PG was also involved in the inception of Reddit: It was PG who gave Alexis and Steve the idea to make something like reddit, and also gave them the tagline "the front page of the internet".[0] PG had vetoed their initial idea to c
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by vshan 8y ago
It's built on top of PostgreSQL.
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by vshan 8y ago
From Nat Friedman, future CEO of GitHub ( https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman... ): "Developers are really particular about their setup, and choosing an editor is one of the m
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by vshan 8y ago
Similar to Scott Fahlman's Scone Knowledge-Base Project: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/scone/
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Service Fabric and Kubernetes Comparison – Distributed Systems Architecture(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
1 points by vshan 8y ago|0 comments
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by vshan 8y ago
I recently read 'Measure What Matters' and find OKRs to be a great way to track personal goals.
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by vshan 8y ago
Just to add on to the fantastic article: Designing Data‑Intensive Applications is a great book which tries to bridge the gap between distributed systems theory and practice.
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Distributed Systems Theory for the Distributed Systems Engineer(the-paper-trail.org)
37 points by vshan 8y ago|1 comments
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Food Discovery with Uber Eats: Building a Query Understanding Engine(eng.uber.com)
1 points by vshan 8y ago|0 comments
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by vshan 8y ago
Very interesting read.
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by vshan 8y ago
It's astounding how much of Kubernetes is simply marketing. Google doesn't even use it internally. Service Fabric[0] is leagues ahead of any cluster orchestration framework, heck, it's a complete distributed systems platform
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by vshan 8y ago
“It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get -- the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they canno
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by vshan 8y ago
I've found Holub on Patterns to be a fantastic resource on applying GoF patterns to real world code.
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by vshan 8y ago
"When we were learning about manufacturing at Mac, we hired a Stanford Business School Professor at the time named Steven Wheelwright, and he did a neat thing. He drew on the board a little chart, first time I met him. He said, you can
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What Makes a Great Software Engineer? [pdf](faculty.washington.edu)
304 points by vshan 9y ago|126 comments
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by vshan 9y ago
1. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem by Alan Turing 2. A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon 3. Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine by John McC
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Alan Kay answers “What was it like to be at Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited?”(quora.com)
123 points by vshan 9y ago|55 comments
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Ask HN: What are some good books on SV / Tech industry history?
1 points by vshan 9y ago|3 comments
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by vshan 9y ago
Check out his next book, Anti-fragile as well. Builds on a lot of ideas of Black Swan.

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