Site Reliability, Databases, Rails, and Kubernetes. Engineering Lead at @Shopify. @evilmartians alumni. he/him. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧

London, UK
Joined April 2011
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Kir Shatrov retweeted
Sent Nanoglyph 018 about Ractors in Ruby 3. A more faithful implementation of the actor model than something Goroutines/channels. Two styles of message passing to get whatever blocking/non-blocking semantics you want to have. brandur.org/nanoglyphs/018-r…
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writing c after rust: omg I can do pointer math again! so much freedom!
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current status: > Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
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what's up c++ templates??
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Replying to @ThisIsMissEm
we shouldn't be forcibly limiting travel at any scale, we should be doing whatever possible to reduce the need for people to travel, e.g. for work
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would be really neat if people could stop invoking national borders as a covid defense mechanism
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Kir Shatrov retweeted
I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory:
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