Some parts of this job never change 😅

We're please to announce #libSQL, an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite. We aim to evolve it to suit many more use cases than SQLite was originally designed for. libsql.org

It's disheartening to see so many folks impacted by the turbulence going on in tech these days. To those impacted, I'm happy to help where I can. To start, here's an open position on my team. I'm happy to chat about it in whatever way suites you. jobs.netflix.com/jobs/108305119

I think of the Cloud Control API as a foundational piece for how future cloud apps are going to be built. It is still super early but so much to come. You should come watch this talk if you're at re:Invent.

One of the things that I think is sad about the decimation of Twitter eng is that Twitter was doing a lot of interesting (and high ROI) engineering work that, at younger companies, is mostly outsourced to "the cloud" or open source projects A few examples off the top of my head:

I love this.

Shout out to the Apple Genius Bar. Appointment available in less than 24hrs and in/out in less than 20min with replacement AirPod Pros (cracking issue).

Smart move by Netflix making the Chris Rock live streamed standup special. Live events will be key to winning the attention war in streaming. I also saw Rock perform in Palm Springs and if it's the same set, it's hilarious.

Same to you and the family Sanaz! Hope all is well.

Fair tradition. Can’t say they were age inappropriate, but movies on Christmas Day was a tradition growing up.

Remote work = better for doing the work In-office work = better for figuring out what work to do

♥️ Ryp

Spanner 101 is now in session. Today's lesson: Spanner’s query optimizer. Dive in → goo.gle/3BT3EER

One data architecture I expect we'll see more in 2023 is #SQLite/#DuckDB deployed as caches at the edge, updated via change feeds from system-of-record: stellar read performance due to close local proximity to users and fully queryable data models tailored for specific use cases.

Fond memories of my PC-building youth.

Enjoyed listening to the most recent engineering enablement podcast — overcast.fm/+5AVRrr11U “How teams use productivity metrics at LinkedIn” Loved the “Talking about rainbows and unicorns while folks are in the trench digging.“ quote. Applicable when introducing any change.

An observation about devops: At Big Tech, engineers take on all the operations work, oncall, deal with being woken up at night, b/c they are paid very, very well to do this. Hard to copy this model if you don't pay like those companies do. Else you need something different.

The kind of people that thrive in a startup are wired differently than the folks that succeed at a big company, with little overlap. At a startup, it's all about rapid prototype/iteration, wearing many hats, and being OK with doing something "good enough for now."

Remember that time I said that it's better to be a Senior Engineer at Google than a Principle Eng at a no-name shop (and fringe weirdos got mad at me lol) I know a dude who just left a Staff Engineer role at a major BigTech Co to be a Senior at Netflix Prolly doubled his comp🤑