Tim Freeman

Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅

(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

Jepsen and Antithesis worked together to write a glossary for anyone building, testing, and operating distributed systems. It covers the basics of concurrency, consistency models and phenomena, faults, and some testing approaches:

https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/ […]

A new #Jepsen report! We tested early builds of Capela, an unreleased distributed programming environment, and found twenty-two issues, including four language problems, fourteen crashes or non-fatal panics, performance degradation, and three safety issues including lost update […]

I have lots of Thoughts about technology marketing (that led to a lot of the way Rust did things, and was borne out of… previous experiences) but the biggest one is: you gotta define yourself on your own terms rather than in opposition to something else

Nice: CloudFormation Hooks now support Lambda functions.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

I created a list of Cloud Security folks on here. bsky.app/profile/scot...

If you read ✨one post✨ this year about instrumentation, OTel, logs, tracing, or observability 2.0, make it this one. It's just that fucking good.

It has code samples. It is also a great overview of your options in the o11y 2.0 space, incl vendors, OSS and hybrid.

jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-pract...

I'm curious how other people are designing systems that do a lot of scheduling/monitoring work.

What I landed on might be considered heavy handed?

But I'm pretty happy with its development, testing, cost, and HA properties/tradeoffs.

https://www.peakscale.com/external-cron/

yes I’ve stared into the abyss

(contemplating zero caffeine)

the bsky team should start monitoring twitter's infra for outages, so they know when to scale up

it's too early for this image 😆

OH: when elon and zuck wrestle, do you think they might end up kissing?

I really miss working on a team. With the right people, even the really challenging times can be good.

sardines, kimchi, and natto - all before 7am

Nothing exemplifies a complete failure to understand the point of science like demanding to settle a scientific issue through the medium of emotionally persuasive public shouting

that last part is so true, also applicable to building relationships based on a lie. Not worth it to be liked or loved for something you are not

I'm tired of explaining the difference in classified mishandling between Trump, Biden, Pence, and Clinton. So, I wrote it all down in this post, complete with footnotes. Now I hope to never speak on this again. https://infosec.exchange/@jschuh/110551298514321829

do you like anything in its place?

Inside the Courtroom At his arraignment, Donald Trump was 20 feet from Jack Smith, the special counsel. But they exchanged not a word.

Why is this written like a fanfiction romance?

Tracking site:

Reddit blackout is already starting. Subreddits are going private and 403s are coming in from RSS feeds:

My former team at Etsy is hiring! Work in Rust with Tantivy on a cloud-native retrieval system. This one is for a Sr Staff Eng, and I'm told a Sr Eng role is also coming up https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Etsy2/743999911916518-senior-staff-software-engineer-retrieval-systems

We have like five air purifiers now :-/

More options for the Twitter diaspora? :-/

"One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor [...] The new standalone app will be based on Instagram and integrate with ActivityPub, the decentralized social media protocol."

When this happened in Seattle, I felt very different after a few days. It was very noticeable. Even if you stay inside, smoke inhalation is terrible for you.

bluesky’s mobile app design aesthetic should be more skeetomorphic

first skeet waiting at a red light #milestone

The wildest thing I’ve seen is a pair of divorced parents who are regularly sending/requesting money from each other for kid expenses

cool, was able to change my handle here to @timf.dev