Not boring, and a bit of a condescending prick

2021-02-13 13:54:21 Glad we're back to the TSLA curve from what seemed to be stalled as the gold one for a bit.

Wondering how would my Go career exit. Casually become a dan-ranked player around my retirement age would be close to how I approach life in general, and one's Go does resemble their life quite a bit. Open / Comment

2021-01-24 17:43:41 And yesterday at the meetup we talked about reactive streaming.

I'm experimenting with formats tirelessly =) and this one was not really about discussing the design of a particular large-scale system, but more of a casual conversation on one of the important topics in modern software architecture. Open / Comment

2021-01-15 12:21:48 And our next system design meetup video: designing WhatsApp / Telegram / FB Messenger.

With online whiteboards this time, hope you enjoy it! We had a lot of fun for sure, and, as always, we've learned something too.

As a fly in the ointment, my Ubuntu screen recording at 60FPS stared dropping frames, effectively freezing the video in the last quarter or so of the recording. The audio is fine. Lesson learned, I hope to do better next time. Open / Comment

2020-12-19 21:56:10 Today's meetup: A distributed filesystem and much more. Open / Comment

2020-12-19 10:31:17 Can't resist :) Open / Comment

2020-12-13 00:47:48 Web Crawler: today's #meetup video.

With interesting detours into message queues and brokers, as well as into whether Redis can be used as a queue, and if FIFO is that important when it comes to managing the crawl queue.

(Let me know if you'd rather not have me post these links in this channel, still calibrating on this social media thingy. Thanks!) Open / Comment

2020-12-11 21:50:22 A very valuable 16 minutes piece. Kahneman talks about intuition and how to use it effectively, as well as about the role of optimism, both for an individual and for our society as a whole. Open / Comment

2020-12-05 23:01:54 Next meetup video: Designing user authentication as if it's 1998 (spoiler: not really 1998).

I've enjoyed it quite a bit — thanks everyone who joined and helped! — and am looking forward to the next ones.

As a friendly reminder, here's our Slack, and here's an invite link to it. Open / Comment

2020-12-02 15:00:37 Thanks for all the interest to the previous post!

I've put together a Slack "workplace" (here's an invite link to it), and a Twitter handle. We are planning to host the next event this coming Friday or Saturday.

I also did some magic with the "connected discussions account" here on Telegram, so, if we're lucky, from this post on there'll be comments enabled here. Open / Comment

2020-11-29 18:45:50 Our first system design meetup video is now up.

I enjoy interviewing, and enjoy helping people prepare for interviews. This year I realized the system design format is taking off, and I especially like conducting interviews of that kind. At the same time it appears there's not much quality content available online, so, without further due, we recorded this piece and are presenting it to you.

Kudos to Tilek Mamutov and the Outtalent.com team for helping to make it happen.

The format is similar to the practice sessions we ran before, with a few tweaks to make it more relaxed. It still is an experiment, to the degree that I haven't even wrapped my head around whether it should be called a session, a colloquium, or a meetup. Let me leave it for you guys to judge, and hope you like it.

I plan on making this a regular thing, and if you want to join one of the next ones, here's a form for us to pick the best date and time. Open / Comment