Our payment service went down for 3 minutes. No big deal, right? Except every service that called payments kept retrying. The retry storms consumed all available connections. Within 10 minutes, all 12 services were down.
3 minutes of one service failing became 45 minutes of total outage.
Circuit breakers prevent...
"Who owns this code?" is a question most teams answer with folklore. GitHub's CODEOWNERS file is supposed to answer it, but it gets written once, rots quietly, and keeps routing reviews to people who changed teams a year ago.
checkOwners answers it from evidence instead. It's an open-source CLI that read...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been diving into the fundamentals of data analysis. It’s been an eye opening experience, and I’d like to share some of the key lessons I’ve learned so far.
1. Getting Started with Data Analysis
The first step was understanding what data analysis really means and what a data analyst does. I discovered that being an analyst isn’t just abo...
¿Alguna vez escuchaste el término "serverless" y pensaste que era magia negra? No te preocupes, a todos nos pasó. En este artículo vamos a explorar una novedad muy reciente de Amazon Web Services (AWS) que está cambiando las reglas del juego: Lambda MicroVMs. Y lo vamos a hacer sin asumir que ya sabes todo sobre la nube.
Casi todo el "manejo de prompts" es una carpeta de archivos .txt y una revisión de código. Esto es lo opuesto: los prompts viven en la base de datos como filas versionadas, cada agente busca el actual en el momento de la petición, la calidad se puntúa a partir de lo que de verdad pasó (una publicacion fue aceptada, un borrador se publicó, no un LLM calificándose a ...
Admissions inboxes are a grind. Most of what lands in admissions@yourschool.edu is some variation of the same three questions — what's the deadline, what documents do I still need, did you get my transcript — interleaved with the documents themselves arriving as PDF attachments. A human reads each one, looks up the applicant in the SIS, checks which docs are still outstand...