wjossey

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by wjossey 2y ago
It’s important to keep in mind that 12 years ago, the patterns for high scale message queues (and often even low scale) were still in flux and getting established. In the ruby world, delayed job was getting upended by sidekiq, but redis was
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by wjossey 4y ago
This stuff is hard. As someone who runs infra teams for a living, these are the worst kinds of weeks. Hang in there. You all will learn from this and be better for it. Your architecture will improve. Customers will give you a second chance.
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by wjossey 4y ago
I was lucky enough to visit the broadcast studios seven or so years ago for a taping of windows weekly. It was a bucket list item of mine after I started listening to Leo in 2008 during grad school. It beat my wildest expectations, getting
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by wjossey 4y ago
Right now, we just require intermediate services to be spun up if you need to connect with a custom downstream service. So, as an example, if I have three services where A talks to B, B talks to C, and I have a custom version of A & C t
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by wjossey 4y ago
As someone who has built out a similar internal tool, one of the things I'm excited to see someone do is the route propagation technique. It's something I've evaluated adding to our internal solution as we rolled out a servic
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by wjossey 4y ago
Sean Kelly (aka Stabby), is one of the most talented engineers I’ve ever worked with, and is someone who understands the challenges and pitfalls of architecture ahead of his time, as this article highlights so well. To this day, I try to ch
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by wjossey 4y ago
I took 5 weeks off from my startup when I had my first, and I’ll be taking 3 months off for my second who arrives end of the month. I’m at a larger organization now in a leadership role, and my past startup I was one of three. As others are
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by wjossey 4y ago
Both platforms are worth supporting. Com does a lot of great events and creates great content, and I like supporting it. I also prefer their UX. Lichess has Maia bot, some good course material as well, and I like to use my lichess account s
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by wjossey 4y ago
Always excited when chess pops up on HN once a month or so. As someone who picked it up as a hobby in December, I can attest that lichess is a great app and site for folks looking to get back into the game or get started (I’m also a premium
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by wjossey 4y ago
You're 100% right. Thanks for adding Danya.
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by wjossey 4y ago
Add me to the list of folks likely to respond to this thread about getting back into it later in life. I have a toddler (and soon baby number 2) and I find it a really enjoyable brain exercise when I have brief gaps. For those of you with j
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by wjossey 4y ago
We do 30 minute daily “standup ups” where the “what I’m currently focused on” component lasts for 10 minutes. Our group discussions, that are IC led, that come out of challenges or successes folks are facing, make up the last 20 some days (
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by wjossey 4y ago
Not only did he get suspended, but he was suspended while also competing in the Grand Prix, where he needs to likely make the semi finals to make the candidates tournament. He openly said during interviews since the suspension that he was l
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by wjossey 4y ago
Dropped out of a comp sci PhD program after a year for this exact same reason. Will go get my masters some day so I can teach in retirement, but was saddened teaching in higher ed couldn’t be the end game.
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by wjossey 5y ago
As a student pilot, this drives me nuts. The volume of abbreviations, especially in NOTAMS, METARs, etc, is a bit obscene. What’s wonderful too is that the abbreviations are often based on non English words as well, so they aren’t intuitive
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by wjossey 5y ago
Rule number one. Use what you know. Rule number two, use what can last you for the first three years. Rule number three, build with considerable haste. Don’t choose anything from 1 & 2 that limits that. Everyone’s preferences from there
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by wjossey 5y ago
Absolutely hard. But that doesn’t mean if you’re in a position to start a company from scratch that you can’t walk away. Or if you go to another company and are involved in their procurement of a new purchase, that you can’t sway it away fr
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by wjossey 5y ago
I hear you. I didn’t use EBS for five years after the great outage in, what was it, 2011? At this point, it’s reliable enough that even if it were to go down, it’s more safe than not using it. I’d put EBS in the pantheon of “core” services
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by wjossey 5y ago
Respectfully disagree. No company in the world has 100% uptime. Whether it’s your server rack or their server rack going down means nothing to a customer. We’re not discussing data loss in this thread specifically. This is about a couple of
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by wjossey 5y ago
I deeply concur with this statement. I think folks here are conflating a one off test versus keeping your redundancy up to date as apps evolve.
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by wjossey 5y ago
I’ve been running platform teams on aws now for 10 years, and working in aws for 13. For anyone looking for guidance on how to avoid this, here’s the advice I give startups I advise. First, if you can, avoid us-east-1. Yes, you’ll miss new
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by wjossey 5y ago
There was an AZ outage in Oregon a couple months back. You should definitely go multi AZ without hesitation for production workloads for systems that should be highly available. You can easily lose a system permanently in a single AZ setup
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by wjossey 5y ago
I’m not a CTO, but I am a senior leader that also in the past helped found a leadership development program focused on management (tech and non tech related). As is always the case with this, one can code and one can also not code in a CTO
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by wjossey 5y ago
Which is why in the USA you write off your losses. If you make 11 on 20 and lose 10 on 20, you pay taxes on 1 dollar.
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by wjossey 5y ago
Well said. Thanks for sharing your story.
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by wjossey 5y ago
Hey! You’re not alone. I had huge work life (self induced) challenges for 8 or so years at the start of my career. Similar story to you but not as a founder- I just worked 80+ hours a week by default. Nobody forced me to do it, just my moto
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by wjossey 5y ago
Because you get a refund for taxes paid which you didn’t owe. You pay an estimate over the course of the year based on how much your employer thinks you’ll make, then they (the IRS) refund you the difference if you make too little, or have
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by wjossey 5y ago
It does not include payroll taxes.
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by wjossey 5y ago
Important to note to non Americans that this does not mean that 61% paid no taxes, it’s that they didn’t pay a specific type of tax (income at the federal level). Individuals likely still paid Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, and pote
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by wjossey 5y ago
Many of the vaccines are effective against the delta, but they do not serve as a firewall to stop the spread of infection within a community. As a simple example, imagine you have a community of 100 people. 1 person is infected, 98 are vacc

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