tl;dr: Werner received a call to scale the data model that governors were using to plan their response to COVID-19. He talks through how he did so with the Amazon team.
tl;dr: If you self-identify as assertive, you may not be aware of how others perceive you. Dave outlines 3 questions you can ask to help you find out. If you are overly assertive, it may "cost you the truth."
tl;dr: "We had to invest in greater visibility and reliability in order to accommodate the amount of work being done. This post will outline our process and a few of the major projects that got us to where we are."
tl;dr: A battle cry that we're not building the right things. Albeit governments failure, Marc says we have failed too. The only way to recover is completely re-focus efforts on building a new world.
tl;dr: Having a daily cost of $960 / day was too high for an early stage startup. Cityflo identified patterns in vehicle movement and travel times. Then by creating a route design for each vehicle, they were able to reduce costs.
tl;dr: "Leaning in to the pain by deleting and replacing your servers on a weekly or monthly basis means you are constantly testing and exercising your automation and runbooks."
tl;dr: A dive into PostgreSQL’s imperfections (1) Disastrous XID wraparound (2) Failover will probably lose data (3) Inefficient replication that spreads corruption.
tl;dr: "A blog platform for developers, for everything coding. Not for content-marketing disguised as programming tutorials. Not for advertisement blended with sincerely interesting pieces."