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I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it…
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems : Resiliency Patterns. The chapter is all about failures and their…
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It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t a path to change how companies actually work.
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
