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Ah, November 1 (and NYC Marathon Sunday). My annual reminder to get my sh*t together and wrap up my annual goals. If these runners can close out a marathon, I can close out the year strong.
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Thanks to @rootlyhq for including me in the 2026 Reliability Top 50 list! I'm humbled to be part of such great company. I also have to give many thanks to my former team at @SeismicSoftware and current team at @Alephic_AI (@heyitsnoah, @James_Gross) for being an amazing group of humans to work with. Last, but not least, I have a lot of appreciation for @jjrichardtang being a source of inspiration and motivation.
I'm excited to see how we can all continue to push the boundaries when it comes to reliability!
rootly.com/top50
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this chart is why we should be optimistic long term
ai is good at finding vulnerabilities
it is also good at preventing them from shipping in the first place
Oh FFS. Thank you for your concern Sam, but don’t spread your FUD and doom bait in my waters.
I lead one of the most utilized Linux operating systems in the world for data centers and enterprises, and I founded its predecessor too.
While AI is surely accelerating finding human created security issues, it is a temporary problem, and most open source project leads have already figured out how to also use AI to reduce new bugs moving forward.
Here is a graph from GKH (who maintains the stable kernel) on how many CVEs they are remediating per release:
github.com/gregkh/kernel-dev…
This graph describes how much better each release is now getting:
github.com/gregkh/kernel-dev…
This doom based marketing approach that the AI labs are pushing is really short sighted. While this will of course drive business to us, I find it unethical to distort the truth and use scare tactics in messaging.
The greater truth is that AI is making the software industry more secure, by identifying the human errors in code, and soon we will end up in a much better place.
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wow am i understanding this correctly?
1. put chinese models on the entity list.
2. force american companies to buy more expensive ai from american labs.
3. watch the rest of the world use cheaper models with equal or better intelligence.
4. discover that distillation did not magically stop because washington published a list.
5. make american businesses less competitive globally while raising prices for ordinary americans.
6. meanwhile none of this stops chinese ai labs from becoming better & better.
congratulations you protected domestic ai companies by taxing the competitiveness of the entire country.
what a colossal mess. someone please add order to this madness.
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Lee Kuan Yew:
“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."
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Didn't expect a previous reply about #banking and #Charlotte to be of such interest. A few more details:
Hugh McColl as President of NCNB (now $BAC) and Edward Crutchfield as president of First Union (now $WFC) led the charge to expand North Carolina banking. There were others too, such as, John Allison at BB&T, and folks at Wachovia.
1) The gates were opened in 1985 when Supreme Court approved regional interstate banking. First Union was among the first banks to take advantage of the decision.
2) North Carolina banks were out of the gates first due to backing from the NC Legislature.
3) Also out of the gates first to become bigger, very fast, as a defense from potential takeovers by big city banks from NYC/Chicago.
4) Side note: Charlotte also began offering liquor by the drink in the late seventies that helped in deal making. Similar to Salt Lake City to help get the Olympics.
AI-driven radio stations are coming up with some wild segues
Once, DJ Gemini paired historical tragedies with ironic pop songs. E.g., the 1970 Bhola Cyclone killed 500k people. Gemini's segue: "It's going down, I'm yelling timber" and queued Timber by Pitbull.
For hours, it recited darker and darker events in a concerningly upbeat tone.
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“On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two.”
It isn't unexpected that the focus of the Bun Rust rewrite is on the anti-Zig side more than anything, since the internet loves to hate. What is unexpected and unfortunate is that leadership within Bun hasn't tried to steer the conversation away from that at all.
There are so many positive and interesting takeaways from this and I'm not really seeing any of them pushed as the primary message.
A positive thing that hasn't been talked about at all is how far Bun came thanks to Zig. And even if you dump it now, its meaningful for how good Zig was to even build a product to this point and impact by any metric. I would've loved to see anyone in leadership say this.
On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. Its useful until its not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting!
There's been a lot of talk about memory safety and no doubt Rust provides more guarantees than Zig. But I'd love to see a better analysis of why Bun in particular suffered so much rather than take the language-blame path. How could engineering as a practice been more rigorous to prevent this? What were the largest sources of crashes other programs should watch out for? How does Rust prevent them? How could Zig theoretically prevent them? That's interesting.
I know the official blog post hasn't come out yet from Bun. But they're smart enough to know that that PR would stir up controversy the moment it opened, or they should've been. And plenty in the company have been tweeting and writing about it. Its somewhat telling to me in various dimensions what they chose to talk about first.
I tend to think I'm pretty good at corporate PR/comms (especially when it comes to developer audiences) and I think appealing to the negative is never the right long term strategy; it does work to get short term eyes though.
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"Code is fashion now".
A framework for getting humans, agents, and everything in between to build the same vision. every.to/thesis/the-culture-…
I wrote about my experience in software engineering over the last 10 years, and shared my perspective over the general trends that have moved the needle by shifting critical functions to the left. Take a look!
open.substack.com/pub/ltce/p…
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Thanks to @johnloeber for surfacing this blog post - fascinating read.
This was an incredible blog post: mattlakeman.org/2024/11/08/n…
What a read.
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Does your organization use @kubernetesio and Apache Kafka, and you're not quite sure how to migrate data across Kafka clusters?
If so, then this post may be of interest. The following topics are covered:
- Kafka data migrations
- What is MirrorMaker 2?
- Kubernetes and Strimzi Operator
- Visualizing the MirrorMaker 2 configuration and data flow
- Migration Gotchas
Let's dive in!
open.substack.com/pub/ltce/p…
#Kafka #Strimzi #apache #confluent
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Read something this weekend from @Lethain I can’t stop thinking about:
For Engineering Leadership Career Growth:
Personal Prestige > Personal Brand.
It makes so much sense on why followers, page views or amount of content don’t matter.
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The story of Priyanjali Gupta, the engineering student who built an AI model that translates American Sign language (ASL) into English instantly.
[read more: buff.ly/3mifjbn]
xitter.cf/meghamohan/status/1509…
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User reports indicate Peloton is having problems since 4:37 PM EDT. downdetector.com/status/pelo… RT if you're also having problems #Pelotondown
