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Token bucket is all you need

My guess is SRE culture is a tough sell at Anthropic. When you’re a frontier lab, almost everything else looks more prestigious and more immediately “impactful”.

Flatbuffers are fine - I think it is used in many places that needs zero-copy. Also outside google, it powers the Arrow format which is the foundation of modern analytics

Absolutely. LLM inference is still a greenfield — things like overlap scheduling and JIT CUDA kernels are very recent. We’re just getting started optimizing for modern LLM architectures, so cost/perf will keep improving fast.

From an enterprise adoption standpoint, remote MCP addresses the connector problem and can be easily retrofitted into enterprise-wide gateway services. In contrast, building tools is significantly more expensive for enterprises with large, existing API surfaces.

Most of the concerns can be addressed by a gateway service

many people especially those with chronic illnesses died because Zero-COVID blocked access to basic medical care and food. Those deaths were policy-driven and avoidable.

Zero-COVID was an absolute disaster. It involved severe human rights violations and caused immense social and economic damage, including unnecessary displacement, homelessness, and even deaths. The number is lower sure, but China had the capacity to do much better

I don’t blame the dev teams who ended up creating mini-frameworks. In many big tech companies, central framework teams are chronically underfunded. What I do blame are ego-driven mini-frameworks built by senior principal+ engineers that don’t actually solve real problems.

China has been a developing country for most the time of the past 25 years. It is indeed a huge problem if it is still rising rapidly. But it is also not fair to limit China’s per capita growth for most of the past two decades

It is 8.89 China vs 14 according to https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...

I thought Elastic as the company has been economically damaged by OpenSearch and AWS for many years.

Hmm very good point!

Same story back in 2016, they either laid off or pivoted heavily on the production plan. Can’t trust those real sense folks

There’s another reason for the decline of Scala - much less people are writing Spark code in Scala. At peak I think Spark accounted for a large portion of Scala’s growth

Does anyone tell their manager they are leaving and still expecting anything nowadays? I thought dive-and-save is very rare since the flattening trend happened (esp. in big tech)

Good news is the system in China frequently get in the way - people with connections wins the government or state owned businesses contract, making it tougher for many innovators to strive with a shrinking private-owned/consumer-demand environment

(Source: frustrated friends who lose the government contract to someone with inferior technology)

Computer vision and deep learning conferences have been overwhelmed with Chinese authors since many years ago. No surprises. However the quality of the work skyrocketed recently

There was a talk in 2023 of a non-TCP based protocol, Homa in RPC for data center use-case https://youtu.be/xQQT8YUvWg8?si=g3u5TogBe0_QpPpj.

gRPC is indeed for backend service to service calls with strong contract/model first approach. It’s important for company in serious API and SDK vending business.

Netflix, Coinbase, Spotify and several big/medium tech company pretty much all in gRPC. I guess there must be a problem with the haters here who could not get the value

Yes, simply because there are mass number of people making a living there. Be a realist

Everybody loses? The fact that TikTok remains available to millions of users is a significant benefit, especially for those who rely on it for creative expression, community building, and small-business promotion.

In the current geopolitical climate, just how far might we go in barring Chinese H‑1B visa holders from industries we label “critical to national security”—sectors such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence? Could such fear and suspicion escalate to the point of mass internment, echoing the shameful precedent of forcibly confining Japanese Americans during World War II? Most importantly, which legal safeguards, democratic institutions, and moral principles exist to ensure that such extreme xenophobic measures remain firmly off the table?

Curious why Murat left the project before it’s launched

Oh yeah nowadays AWS believes more choices more footguns

Fun fact, log4j use disrupter

Would Taiwan have time to “pursue”? CCP will see this as deal breaker and with the level of spy infiltration Taiwan can’t keep this a secret.

Edit: USA will see this as a huge red flag as well. Remember USA only want to deter but not a real war

I wonder if similar performance can be achieved with Spark accelerator like https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet. Of course it didn’t exist 4 years ago, but would it cheaper to build?

Is it really AWS? I don’t recall any service called BDT

Prepare the rollback/fallback pre-mortem, not surprised