A beautiful red robin just landed on the edge of my laptop, stared at me aggressively, turned around, and pooped on my screen.

Which is an interesting combination of the sublime and ridiculous

'The radical idea that it is legitimate to apply software techniques and systems thinking to the operations domain.... is still radical.'

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Europe-as-a-service, essentially

Mike Julian Once you start getting requests like that, there's nothing you can do to stop the bills coming in. In the end we had to get AWS support to take over the S3 bucket

Concentric circles appear to be spirals.

同心円が渦巻きに見える。

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Saw the early stages of this being built when I was at MS (indeed, there was a station outside the hotel I frequented). Great to see!

this is super valid and great to come to as an epiphany in a blog post if you're a college kid or a random schmuck and kinda weird to do if you've held a high prestige AI job for a full year.

tech company earnings are so funny now, the CEOs just get on the horn and compete to say how much money they're sending jensen huang

I’m excited to share that I’m working on a new book about building applications with foundation models! AI Engineering builds upon Machine Learning Systems Design, but with a focus on large scale, ready made models.

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good morning to everyone building hard things! it's a grind but there's nothing quite like doing something that has never been done before.

The Irish Mathematical Society/Romina Gaburro are organising a Women in Maths Day in MACSI. Talks by Mayya Golitsyna, Natalia Kopteva, Eabhnat Ní Fhloinn, Rachel Quinlan 🇪🇺 & Sinead Ryan. Support available for undergrad, postgrad and early researcher. You can also attend online:
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In today's digital era, service reliability is crucial for organizational success. Implementing #SLOs and strategies for graceful degradation is key to maintaining customer trust and enhancing user satisfaction.

Niall Murphy Google Site Reliability Engineering

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This is a fascinating spot in the trade-off space of commit algorithms. It's less fault tolerant than 2PC-over-Paxos (needs to wait for reconfiguration to make progress after even one failure), but saves a whole round-trip in the deal.

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I have both been and spoken at this conference, and it is the conference I think is perhaps most valuable to go to.

If you have thoughts on software operations write them up!

Sometimes I think we could use some further ado.