- Site Reliability Engineering at Facebook
Description of what SRE is at Facebook
(categories: sre engineering facebook uptime performance ) - Engineering Reliability into Web Sites: Google SRE
As the title says.
(categories: google sre engineering uptime performance )
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Links: 10-1-2012
- Site Reliability Engineers: “solving the most interesting problems” | Research Blog
Heard about this title / type of team from Erik Onnen, who is doing something similar at Urban Airship. Sounds really cool.
(categories: google sre reliability uptime performance sys ) - Site Reliability Engineers: the “world’s most intense pit crew” | Google Student Blog
More on SRE’s, love the description.
(categories: google sysadmin sre performance reliability ) - Cross Browser Testing Tool – BrowserStack
Looks like a cool tool for browser testing.
(categories: testing browser tools qa )
Links: 9-20-2012
- David Simon | Mitt Romney paid taxes at a rate of 13 percent and he’s proud to say so. Redux.
Quote: "As he believes first and foremost in Mitt Romney and his ambitions, he can’t conceive that others can conjure anything larger than themselves or their possible personal gain. Here and now, he is laid bare by his own cynical critique of others who will not follow him in selfishness. It is not that Mr. Romney is merely unfit to serve us as president. Based on this latest revelation, it may go much deeper. If he believes what he told that group in private, he may well be unfit to serve us as a fellow citizen."
(categories: politics taxes ) - Michael Lewis: Obama’s Way | Vanity Fair
You also need to remove from your life the day-to-day problems that absorb most people for meaningful parts of their day. “You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.”
(categories: decision-making mental-hacks culture brain )
Links: 9-5-2012
- Free JSON API to instantly check the spam score of your email messages
Glad to see this, have been wondering why it didn’t exist for awhile.
(categories: smtp spam email spamassassin )
Links: 9-2-2012
- Victor Out O’Sight Mole Trap | The Home Depot – Model#:631
Bought one of these at 6pm tonight, caught the mole by 9pm. Highly recommended.
(categories: yard home pests moles )
Links: 8-27-2012
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Links: 7-25-2012
- Coding Horror: But You Did Not Persuade Me
Great advice, totally agree.
(categories: career leadership business engineering speaking writing )
Links: 7-23-2012
- WebPagetest – Website Performance and Optimization Test
Cool little tool for performing browser performance tests using a variety of browsers from multiple locations.
(categories: performance optimization browsers testing tools )