Software Development Engineer at @awscloud / Distributed Systems Enthusiast / Book Worm - interested in scalable distributed systems, JVM and #AWS / INFJ🐨

Joined July 2015
I just bought @alexbdebrie's new DynamoDB book off gumroad, you should too, it's got everything you need to master DynamoDB, one of the most important services in #aws. And it's the last day to get the launch price and save 20%! dynamodbbook.com
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Got myself a Christmas present... Now need to take first one to Munich next time. Maybe meet @ifesdjeen...
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Hahah, @therealdatabass just got the best five-star review on Amazon ever. "All-time best O'Reilly Animal Cover Ever" with a short comment "I mean, a flounder".
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Some great introductory lectures on Combinatorical Topology in Distributed Systems by @mpherlihy and Dmitry Kozlov: youtu.be/DB0t0ld0w_s youtu.be/PhG2Te7-vOk youtu.be/iSz-6pjhEO4
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Alex retweeted
.@amazon announced a preview release of #AmazonCorretto, a "no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution" build of #OpenJDK, the reference implementation of #Java. Read more. bit.ly/2DJI6wS
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Category Theory for Programmers by @BartoszMilewski is now complete, and available for purchase in hardcover! 396 pages, 6"x9", full color print! As always, the PDF is free, and available online! Hardcover: blurb.com/b/9008339-category… PDF: github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-…
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Apache Kafka: Ten Best Practices to Optimize Your Deployment bit.ly/2CRXWWD
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Wrote a post on health checks, the perils of treating it as a binary state, the need for adaptive feedback loops and effective backpressure. Also why HAProxy style agent-checks are a fantastic pattern for getting started with this form of control loops. bit.ly/2MdY5Jd
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"Kafka Streams in Action" by @bbejeck will be release soon. A must read for all @apachekafka and @kafkastreams folks. Exciting to see @nehanarkhede writing a foreword!
Before @kafkastreams in Action by @bbejeck comes out next month, read the foreword by @nehanarkhede featured in today's post. If you're interested interested in building real-time apps and #microservices, this book is a great way to get started! cnfl.io/kafka-streams-action
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Ok, let’s try that: 1 like = 1 Distributed Systems paper. Let’s go!
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🎆What a nice start to the week: Apache Kafka 2.0 has been released 🎇 Check out the release notes here: apache.org/dist/kafka/2.0.0/… Stay tuned for Confluent Platform 5.0…
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Jepsen now offers an explorable version of @pbailis et al's map of consistency models, with detailed explanations and links to relevant papers: jepsen.io/consistency
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$ npm install -g create-react-app $ create-react-app demo $ du -hs demo 158M OMG, JavaScript people, what are you doing?
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The Lebowski theorem: No superintelligent AI is going to bother with a task that is harder than hacking its reward function
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"I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle"
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