Cool blog post about building a super slow SSH server "tar pit" to waste the time of malicious bots: nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/2…

Nice work by Alexey and Will building rack/AZ awareness into Kudu

This is generally good advice regardless of whether you’re a CEO or an individual contributor.

TIL: Heidi Howard has maintains an awesome reading list on consensus algorithms and consistency models: github.com/heidi-ann/dist…

It’s not ideal, but it beats the alternative. I would donate to help provide free, safe overnight parking for folks around the Bay Area. Anybody running such programs up here? cnn.com/2019/12/23/us/…

Donald Trump must be convicted and removed from office. Because he will always choose his own personal interest over our national interest. Because in America, right matters. Truth matters. If not, no Constitution can protect us. If not, we are lost.

Literally ever person in the United States needs to watch this. PLEASE RETWEET

“We Should Pay Almost Anything to Shorten the Shut Down...100 Manhattan Projects.” medium.com/@jseims/covid-…

I am an emergency physician. My increased exposure means that I have chosen to isolate from my family, to keep them safe. This is how I see my daughters (pictured with their cousins, with whom they’re staying). If I can do this, you can stay home. #stayhome #BCdocs #COVID19

Nice testimony on Apache Kudu ingesting 100B time series points per day! (and a hit tip to Cloudera support!)

New paper out today! This morning I will be presenting our latest paper "Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus" at the PaPoC workshop. #papoc2020 #EuroSys20 papoc-workshop.github.io/2020/index.html arxiv.org/pdf/2004.05074…

By now every American should have access to N-95 quality masks. Every day that passes is a scandal & an epic failure of indifference of our government. Details to come soon. Follow here if interested.

Janet Yellen: "I really don’t think the major factor is the extra unemployment" holding back hiring. She points to these 3 as bigger factors in slow hiring: -Ongoing childcare issues -Ongoing fears of covid exposure at work -Supply chain bottlenecks

Congrats on the launch, Vectara! Awesome technology and a great team!

So bummed to see a lot of great people affected by the layoffs at Meta today. Wishing them all the best.