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Dan Upton

@boxofrad

Founding Engineer at @GradientLabsAI 🤖 (but opinions mine)

Ex-HashiCorp, Ex-Monzo

he/him/his

Find me on hachyderm.io 🐘

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Dan Upton (@boxofrad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So much dope stuff announced at #HashiConf this year! Particularly proud to show off what my team has been working on: hashicorp.com/blog/consul-1-…

sachee@macaw.social (@sachee) 's Twitter Profile Photo

you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching like did you bother to even learn how graphql works

Dan Upton (@boxofrad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So they're shutting down Amazon Smile to focus on "philanthropic efforts with greater impact" rather than, say, making it the default (and actually giving it a chance to work) instead of sticking it on some janky subdomain you have to remember to go 🤔

Halli (@iamharaldur) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hi again Elon Musk 👋 I hope you are well. I’m fine too. I’m thankful for your interest in my health. But since you mentioned it, I wanted to give you more info. I have muscular dystrophy. It has many effects on my body. Let me tell you what they are:

James Bedford (@jameesy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As someone who has had the "you need to speak up more" piece of feedback since school, here is some advice on how to handle meetings... It's no good trying to change how often you speak - it just leads to further anxiety and overthinking. Instead - this is what I do:

Dan Upton (@boxofrad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oooof 😬 "Water intrusion in a data center in europe-west9 has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to a shutdown of multiple zones" status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9p…

Molly Boot (@mollyboot1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

T/W: Soul Survivor, religious trauma. Soul Survivor formed my early faith. It was always overwhelming, beguiling, intrusive, emotive and anxiety-provoking. My main memories of the space are of the immense amount of pressure to be vulnerable. 1/4

Lawrence Jones (@lawrjones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 2020 Figma started hitting growing pains with their single managed Postgres database. That means they managed to grow to a $2B company on a single mged instance. I bet at they hired engineers around this time who grumbled about not picking a more ‘scalable’ tech.