Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods, a blog post for the new distributed systems engineer  http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/ …

If you care, even a little, about distributed systems, you will love this article. http://t.co/azFEUMW

Yes: "The secret to programming is having smart friends."

"Who owns my availability" as a service.  http://whoownsmyavailability.com/ 

(You're a dumdum if you put all the blame for an outage on your provider.)

So excited. Think I'm down to only a decade or so away from being a good software engineer.

We don't know how lithium batteries work.  http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/398842.html 

Hey, @sendgrid, are you trying to signal that you'll capitulate to DDOS, think misogyny is A-OK, or just generally bad at running a company?

The abuse of memcached in modern web software is because robust, easy-to-use distributed databases haven't made it to the masses.

Oh, btw, I wrote a post on designing the opposite of a bloom filter: http://t.co/62BmGYM0

When people say "Why do we need easy to build distributed systems?", I hear ancient Sumerians asking "Why do we need a system of writing?"

Very happy we have solid evidence that rendering everything in javascript is not workable but I wish it had involved less of my equity.

Players of FoldIt videogame solved a protein folding problem that had eluded scientists for 15 years in only 10 days. http://t.co/KIdk26Fg

 http://i.imgur.com/4UCT7fQ.gif 

lmao if you've never shipped a bug to hundreds of millions of users.

Much love to @antirez for creating what is nearly the Platonic ideal of "the real sexism in tech is feminism" shitpost.

Been handing out Java Concurrency in Practice to all the new hires. Reading it is almost certainly a free level up. http://t.co/xBNBjCqo

Oh, damn, Oracle DBs getting fucked by fallacy of distributed computation #4. http://t.co/W7cbdrp9 (h/t @cscotta)

Just going to leave this here. http://t.co/cAaQxlz

Got a "private invitation" to @gklst, posted this link  http://storify.com/charlesarthur/oh-hai-sexism … and called them "sexist dumbasses". They deleted my account.

Few engineers know what modern hw is capable of, in part, because the only people that see the numbers are in orgs that had to care or die.