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Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications (PACELC theorem). I have extended…
Sometimes a single process in a system needs to have special powers, like being the only one that can access a shared resource or assign…
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different patterns at your disposal when designing…
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How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.
Patrick interviews me; the energy transition; Americans die young; family and fertility; educating the poor; AI and growth
A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our differing approaches to solving coordination.
The Chinese app has just “blown the roof off” and “shifted the power dynamics.”
Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, technical write-up — although there will be some inevitable technical complexities,
