I’m reading through Understanding Distributed Systems book by Roberto Vitillo this week. This is a great book to learn about systems engineering for the first time or refresh concepts you learned in an education setting. It’s a great book! understandingdistributed.systems

I'm excited to announced that I've just released the 2nd Edition of "A Philosophy of Software Design". See web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bi… for more info (including free download of new chapters).

Here’s my review from a year back on Systems Design Interview: an Insiders Guide: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/system-design-… And here are book recommendations around systems design, including the excellent Understanding Distributed Systems from Roberto Vitillo blog.pragmaticengineer.com/preparing-for-…

This Facebook outage is a prime example of one of the unfathomably stupid design decisions in DNS: if resolvers just served the "stale" cache entries, everything would likely be fine right now. The records rarely change, it's madness to treat TTLs like time-bombs.

I'm looking for a developer to help me bring the #tlaplus #vscode extension to feature parity with the TLA+ Toolbox. Please reach out to me if you're familiar with #vscode, curious about specification languages, and open to contract work (US).

Our team is looking for a manager to lead performance infrastructure across the .NET team. If you're passionate about performance, then this might be the role for you! #dotnet careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1180…

I'm now convinced that the most impactful product advice I should give is simply: use your own product.

This! I still remember distinctively feeling dumb seeing old-heads going from A straight to C. Give it time and don't feel discouraged; it means you are in a good place to learn from your colleagues and grow.

Oh, the joys of being a self-published author. Someone uploaded a modified version of my book with missing pages, images etc on the Kindle store and started selling it. Alex Xu told me once that happened to his book as well, so I should feel honored!

Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: moxie.org/2022/01/07/web…

Achievement unlocked: receiving a care package of snarky systems stickers from Charity Majors

Microsoft is not a Silicon Valley darling, so it is often overlooked. But the behemoth in Redmond teaches us valuable lessons in startup strategy, cloud infrastructure, and the future of software. I wrote about my learnings here: luttig.substack.com/p/dont-forget-…

Kyiv, our splendid, peaceful city, survived another night under attacks by Russian ground forces, missiles. One of them has hit a residential apartment in Kyiv. I demand the world: fully isolate Russia, expel ambassadors, oil embargo, ruin its economy. Stop Russian war criminals!

Celebrating 15 min of fame: the second edition of Understanding Distributed Systems is the #1 new release in Distributed Systems & Computing

I am delighted to announce the new, updated, learntla.com! This new TLA+ guide took six months of work and is almost 40,000 words long, and I already have a million ideas on what to add next. Suitable for both beginning learners and advanced users alike!

Just finished reading Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo One of the best CS books I've read so far, highly recommended. I'll curate a TOC and a book review over the weekend. Meanwhile, you can check out my WIP #booknotes here - bit.ly/booknotes-uds

We cover two chapters from the book Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo: 1. Downstream resiliency Timeout, retries, circuit breaker 2. Upstream resiliency Load shedding, load leveling, rate limiting, constant work. Read it here: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/resiliency-in-…

The more I read this book by Roberto Vitillo, the more I’m happy with the purchase. A must-read book for every backend dev

Excited to share our published paper at USENIX ATC 23 on how distributed transactions were implemented in DynamoDB using a timestamp ordering protocol without sacrificing high scalability, high availability, and predictable performance at scale usenix.org/system/files/a…