99.9% availability is ~9 hrs/yr downtime 99.99% availability is 52min/yr downtime 99.999% availability is just 5m/yr downtime That's how tough it's to keep cloud & distributed systems running for everyone.

Met a peer in office today who was discussing hot path, memory allocation, thread pooling, caching & fallback on failure path with claude. Be this guy! Become indispensible!

Alice and Bob have the most weird and toxic relationship I've come across in my tech career

The friction to experiment & get dirty with a new niche is lowest today. The only thing to separate you from the crowd will be "AGENCY" and "INITIATIVE". Everyone has the same tools, but not the drive or creativity to create something novel.

Video Streaming High Level Design. [Some things are not explicitly written but should be inferable]

Best skills to have as a dev rn (apart from the obv.): 0. larp 1. back that larp 2. know your shit 3. be patient 4. interact with peers 5. (don't be a) meat proxy

They took Hacktoberfest very seriously!