rubiquity

Continuing the never ending trend of Sys Admins/DevOps/SRE job title holders with skills in specific tools rather than foundational skills always wondering why they are out of a job every 5 years.

Nice I started a timer for how quickly a "well actually, SRE at google" would show up and you did not fail to deliver.

> The point of SRE is to have a team dedicated to scaling/resilience to balance the tension between product pushing to ship features.

Sounds like a cultural issue. Google should look into that.

SRE was always a lame job description and so was the entire "DevOps" movement we had to suffer through during ZIRP. Real ones are oncall for the systems they build.

First signs that Search revenue might be peaking.

I may be one of the few to use Crystal in anger for long running programs but unfortunately we had to do away with it because of longstanding issues in the runtime where exceptions at the wrong time during I/O bring the runtime to a halt. It's been a few years so I don't have the github issue off the top of my head anymore. I'd like to think that if they could redesign the language again they would not have exceptions and destructors/finalize.

It's a great language for CLIs though. I'm glad to see the team still pressing on.

the absolute best one: systemd

Well, yeah I guess that just about sums it up.

I went the opposite way and went back to Intel after many many years on AMD. I snagged a Xeon 654 Granite Rapids ($850) for a new workstation geared towards local inference. I don’t need a ton of CPU cores and all Granite Rapids have 8 memory channels where as you need very high end Threadrippers (9975wx for $4000) for an equivalent due to their CCD design.

As a bonus Granite Rapids is super power efficient and runs much cooler than my previous TR and Ryzens. Intel seems to be doing good things again! My only minor complaint is that P2P doesn’t work on my multiple GPU setup because every PCIe5x16 lane has its own dedicated root to the CPU, but all that bandwidth is useful for MoE models that are offloaded to RAM.

No model will ever figure out how to make a ling tight wall.

RIP. I always think of him for his performance in Home Alone 2.

This feels defensive and reactionary after Ramp started getting deeper into AI.

Boy am I feeling this. I had my eye on building a new Threadripper machine, which requires DDR5 RDIMMs. Much to my surprise while happily building out a parts list one fine evening I learned that these are going for between $500 and $1000 for one single 16GB module right now. I think I'll hold off and squeeze a few more years out of DDR4 and PCIe 4.0.

I love what you all do! I don’t have any to submit. Enough time with consensus teaches you to avoid it unless it’s really, truly needed.

My experience as well. LLMs also struggle with Rust's many abstractions and offerings but you can know that if it compiles it is data race free and work with the LLM to use better abstractions over time.

Zig is also good at this but requires more up front design (thread-per-core, static allocation, etc.) and consistent checks to verify rules are followed.