Issue #142
Layoffs, Paxos, Formal methods at AWS, TikTok's recommendation system, Twitter infrastructure with 50000 servers, Building wavenet and much more...
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...
― Ira Glass
Affected by recent layoffs?
Past few weeks have been terrible for people affected by layoffs. If you or your friend is affected by the situation. Please reach out to me in case I can be of any help. I am helping few companies in the USA and India to recruit engineers. Following are the active openings I am working on
USA/India
Compiler Engineer
Spark Engineer with internals knowledge
Linux Engineer - Kernel + User space.
Database Engineer (RDBMS)
Query optimisation Engineer
Solutions Architect for Database product
India
Head of engineering (SaaS product)
SDET - Systems
Firmware Engineer
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Posts
Paxos, Raft, EPaxos: How Has Distributed Consensus Technology Evolved? — Xiang Guang
Fast Software, the Best Software — Craig Mod
Why Functional Programming Should Be The Future Of Software Development —Charles Scalfani
On Feeling Competent — Anja Kefala
Exploring the benefits of single-binary architecture — Noah Watkins
Taste vs Skills — Luca Rossi
Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go — Jesse Li
Scaling Mastodon is Impossible — Armin Ronacher
I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information. Is this the future? — Rober Dam
Source Code Is Not Enough — Mahmoud Mazouz
Book
A Journey in Creating an Operating System Kernel — Mohammed Q. Hussain
Papers
It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter — John Ousterhout
Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System With Collisionless Embedding Table AKA Tiktok’s recommendation system.
— Zhuoran Liu, Leqi Zou, Xuan Zou, Caihua Wang, Biao Zhang, Da Tang, Bolin Zhu, Yijie Zhu, Peng Wu, Ke Wang, Youlong Cheng
Videos
Building makemore Part 5: Building a WaveNet
Coming Of Age | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2022
Local-First, Multi-Device Applications With IPFS - Horacio Herrera, Alexander Burdiyan