tmd83

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Love working with backend systems, the challenge of designing a good system and all aspects of performance engineering.

Always get inspired by the brilliant insightful things people do and a little sad by what little I know.

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Comment · 6 months ago
At one point due to the way I was using my just above my wrist my skin basically calloused from the edge of the macbook. Now at least the lid is not that sharp but it used to be I recall and I always worried about kids getting hit by it in case of an accident.
Comment · 7 months ago
Or perhaps the teams at fruit co found a way to claim that their overflow is an innovative new feature and not copied from some other designs.

While they do a ton of good work, they do love to claim everything was first invented by them.

Comment · 1 year ago
People do love trumping up what they have done. Developers feeling their project was absolutely essential when it might be more about NIH. But are any categories of people more used to trumping up their pointless work so high that any reasonable person would be too shameful to attach their name to the narrative? I guess PR people and politicians can compete with them or even take the first two places.

This doesn't take away from what wondrous thing a designer can achieve. It's an enormously difficult thing to design something that's functional and pleasing and in some cases provide a mood (calm, fast, serious). This sort of bullshit from what I imagine uber expensive designs rebranding major corporations simply highlights the value and rarity of a good designer.

I'm curious were they ever serious about their craft? Or the pursuit of promotion and glory took away their original ethos or they drunk the cool aid so much that they actually believe what they are saying?

Comment · 2 years ago
Does the actual traffic goes through the gateway or the gateway is only used for setting up the connection?
Comment · 2 years ago
Well, there's good to have vs. stupid. It would perhaps be nice to have per-app volume. But the fact that iPhone has just a global volume ... that my ringtone vs. media volume can't be separate is plain stupid isn't it. I will turn down volumes because at work/kids and lost my ringtone. I mean who makes decisions like that?

Now in terms of a little thing that's a major annoyance is the alarm. Android has this feature where upcoming alarms are shown as notifications which you can turn off (just the next one). I set multiple alarms for the morning so that if I shut off one I get another. Now if I wake up on the 1st alarm I will have the next 2 on notification that I can turn off. On iPhone I will keep having those alarm bells and turn them off (which can wake up my kids/wife) or disable them once I wakeup and I might end up forgetting to turn them on for the next day.

Now the freedom in terms of application or browser and extension!!! are obviously general problems.

Comment · 2 years ago
There seems to be newer players both open source and commercial now. But a lot of the focus seems in metric and specially distributed traces. Does anyone in the open source do code level profiling (cpu, allocation, locks etc.) preferably sampling profiler (including Java)?

I have only really found pyroscope.

Comment · 2 years ago
What does it mean to make a "flush Postgres db branch".
Comment · 2 years ago
So if the underlying connection isn't encrypted (like https) it essentially became open to anyone of the same network?
Comment · 3 years ago
Is there anything similar for healthcare IoT? It seems most products have their own App and Backend to share the data and nothing remotely close to universal.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/oss-vs-cloud

This page shows event pattern available for both oss vs. cloud. The blog doesn't mention exactly how this is being which would be an interesting read but I understand if a secret sauce.

I recall quite a few years ago a standalone commercial & hosted tool for doing something like this just on logs for anomaly detection. Anyone has any reference for similar tools for working with direct log data (say from log files) or in a similar capacity like hypderdx (oss or commercial)

Comment · 3 years ago
I would love to read something like that too. I find such tools are fairly hard to evaluate since some of the challenges only comes with scale and you often need a real/realistic scenario to actually figure out if the tool will be useful in a pinch.
Comment · 3 years ago
JFR is nice but I can't seem to find issues as easily with the new JMC as I used to 5.5 or before. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong though.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder what languages it support for language libraries or is it just limited to linux packages? Say java, js etc. ?

Is it marking something active on access or actually checking execution? On execution doesn't work for at least js payload on the other hand on access would add to noise say for an ls.

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