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This helped a lot in my understanding of how to use the SPACE framework https://open.substack.com/pub/abinoda/p/applying-the-space-framework?r=266bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email - from...
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Finally time for a NAS upgrade. My 10+ year old two bay Synology NAS has made way for a 5 bay model. It’s a pretty capable device!
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Ipswich v Maidstone, Australia vs West Indies, India v England. Hell of a weekend.
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Good to see from BambuLabs. Identified an issue with head bed cables on the A1 getting damaged after it got flagged by customers. Explained what happened, and why their testing didn't pick it up...
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I had fun recording an episode of PagerDuty's Unplanned Show with Dormain Drewitz before Christmas, and it's now out! A fairly wide ranging chat about all things resilience, and also an insight into my...
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About to present my talk on why referring to inter-process communication as “asynchronous” is not helpful and NDC London. Come for the clickbait title, stay for the semiotics.
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Nice to see that the simplified Chinese translation of Monolith To Microservices from @OReillyMedia is now available! Details here: https://product.dangdang.com/29622035.html.
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It's odd to say that I've been blown away by a company due to a potential serious electrical flaw, but hats off to Bambu Labs.25th of Jan they got some limited reports about issues with the cable...
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A few days pass, and they release a second post stating that they feel a full recall is in order (Feb 4th): https://blog.bambulab.com/a1-heatbed-cable-callback/. At this stage Bambu themselves don't...
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The new heatbed might take a month or two to be available (which they are clear about), so I decided to go for a refund. But how do I send it back? What if I don't have the right materials? All of this...
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Sometimes companies screw up, how they deal with it counts. Within 36 hours of sending in my request for a refund I've got a shipping label with clear instructions about what to do next, and a timeline...
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I'm reminded of part from the film The Insider, where Jeffrey Wigand tells the story about how Johnson and Johnson handled the Tylenol recall in 1982:...
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I've had a total aversion to using AI image generators where the source of data used to train the models is at best murky. The fact that Adobe seem to have paid photographers to create their source...
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I'm looking forward to coming back to GOTO Amsterdam in June. Alongside a one day class on microservices communication patterns, I'm also debuting my new workshop on resilient distributed systems. Come...
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This interactive, in-browser representation of different retry approaches by @samwho is just exceptional: https://encore.dev/blog/retries. Brilliant stuff.
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The definition of madness is constantly misattributing quotes to Albert Einstein.
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My new book, Building Resilient Distributed Systems, is now available in early access form on the O'Reilly Platform. A few chapters are available at this stage, with more to follow in the coming months...
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“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable” - Leslie Lamport...
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This job looks awesome, and I might be biased, but Canterbury is a cracking city to be based in. Come to the right side of the medway for an awesome job at the University with @dorchard working on...
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Very sad to see that Graham Thorpe has died. During the England's cricketing doldrums pre-2005, he was my favourite player. Far from the flashy type of players that would follow, I still always liked...
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