CTO when CEO announces the 5th pivot of the year:

nagle's algorithm is bs -- man we are no longer in the telnet days

and combine it with "delayed ack" and we are doomed

Building scalable systems is a natural byproduct of understanding the fundamentals behind each piece. The database, the backend, networking elements, protocols and security. Everything else becomes just a puzzle you solve. And at that point, system design is the most joyous

Over 10 years ago, we open-sourced React. And now, we’re excited to announce the next chapter: React & React Native are transitioning to the React Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Meta is committing $3M+ and a 5-year partnership to support this next chapter of innovation.

I re-interview our best performers. I set time aside to understand why they ramp faster, ship faster, understand customers better. Recently I got one of the best compliments about our organization. This engineer came from a really good startup. He joined when they were 20

you can save a lot of infra costs without compromising scalability if you plan your architecture correctly using tunnels

this repo github.com/anderspitman/a… contains many great open-source tunneling projects

A week is too long for startups. A week is too short for big tech. "Oh, the release is a week away. Chill." "Oh f**k... the release is only a week away."

this started happening folks, atleast in b2b fintech industry

very hard to wrap my head around this as an engineer, but it’s true. we’re living in a time where things can be built in hours, and the only real currency left is mindshare and, of course, the value your product provides

yep

If you can build an application using DynamoDB without ever struggling later on, congratulations, you’re a good engineer. DynamoDB forces you to think through all your access patterns, both current and future, unlike traditional databases where you can simply dump data and rely

There is always a single point of failure

aws outage reminds us why every engineer should know how to host services locally (in your pc/laptops/anything with ip), scale them globally, and understand at least the basics of dns

this is true, anything with community/ecosystem will survive the future

Memorizing trick programming questions and answering interviews flawlessly as you may know isn’t productive. Coming up with your own solution on the fly, no matter how inefficient or bad you think it is 100 times better. You will flawlessly one day build up to a better

Life’s a high-risk game with a 0% survival rate.

Anything long-term demands time and attention. Yet we live in a world that kills both. No wonder wealth, health, relationships, and businesses feel harder to build than ever.

In our mythology, Lakshmi never stays where there is chaos. She gravitates toward spaces of order, discipline, and creative energy — a poetic way of expressing a scientific truth: prosperity is concentrated, directed energy. Economies grow when a society learns to channel energy