Saturday, July 31, 2021

the meaning of it all by Richard Feynman

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I am a big fan of Richard Feynman.  It's wonderful to read more of his fun essays.  5/5 Stars.  Too short, as always.

Stories of your life and others by Ted Chiang

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Fantastic collection of short stories, 5/5 Stars.
Friday, July 30, 2021

Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh

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I never read Cherryh's books during the golden years of science fiction (when the reader is 14-18).  But a few folks recommended I catch...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

What is "observability?"

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Adri V has a very-approachable write-up to the modern concept of DevOps "observability" that has supplanted "monitoring,...

yet another no-code workflow automator: n8n

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https://n8n.io/ has a visual (no code) editor for connecting services together (does anyone remember Yahoo! Pipes  from 2007?).  n8n enable...

checklist for your alerts

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Every happy alerting setup is the same; each unhappy alerting setup is unreliable in its own way ( not Tolstoy ).  Mario Fernandez walks us ...

Elegant solution to "the thundering herd" problem while warming up a cache

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The developers at Reddit posted a simple, elegant solution to their (relatively common) ramping problem of handling many tens of thousands ...

Team Topologies

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Hot on the heels of the 2021 State of DevOps report is an analysis (and sales pitch) for Team Topologies ) to break through the cultural b...

State of DevOps: stuck in the middle with you

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The 2021 "State of DevOps Report" is out early this year with great insights about cultural blockers among the 40K professionals w...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Hit & Fade, Forgotten Ruin book 2 by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

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Lots of fun as the story continues, 4/5 Stars.  Can't wait for the next one.