2024 / Week 34

Worse jobs at awful companies

Regular Programming is not a normal podcast, in a few specific ways. So when I wanted to put a promo in it I couldn't do so in a normal way.

https://underjordab.cmail19.com/t/t-e-sltijjy-juijsuuw-x/

You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth - ACM Queue

Imagine you're a company with a lot of work-from-home employees, and they all hate the local ISPs. Videoconferences are the worst: People can't hear each other, they randomly start sounding like Darth Vader, and they occasionally just disappear from the conversation.

You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth - ACM Queue

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3674953

https://j3s.sh/thought/trainwreck-design.html

The Curious Case of QUEENCREEK

Discover the mysterious QUEENCREEK autorun entry in Windows. Is it a hidden threat or something else? Let's find out.

The Curious Case of QUEENCREEK

https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/malware/the-curious-case-of-queencreek/

Stripe's monorepo developer environment

An overview of the tools and environment Stripe engineers used to write and test code, as of 2019 or so.

Stripe's monorepo developer environment

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/stripe-dev-environment/

Somebody Has Already Figured It Out for You

Let’s say you want to cross a river. There’s no bridge, because it’s 3000 BC and you are a nomadic goat herder. You’ve never seen a bridge that wasn’t just a log over a creek. Crossing a big river is something you haven’t figured out. Maybe nobody has. You could maybe make a raft, but it’s hard to find suitable

Somebody Has Already Figured It Out for You

https://www.raptitude.com/2024/08/somebody-has-already-figured-it-out-for-you/

Somebody Has Already Figured It Out for You

Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

Marc Olson, a long-time Amazonian, discusses the evolution of EBS, highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. It's an insightful look at how one of AWS’s foundational services has evolved to meet the needs of our customers.

Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/08/continuous-reinvention-a-brief-history-of-block-storage-at-aws.html

Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS