[Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming

Lex Fridman Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=477qF6QNSvc): Great, loong chat with Tim Sweeney about Epic, Unreal and the ecosystem of tools he got started and how he thinks about the future!

Platform_Engineering_Craft25 slides, Adrian Cockcroft: Platforms should serve business needs of moving faster, or delivering something a uesr needs. Platforms need product management love to make sure they’re evolving in a prioritized way and that engineers building them know what who the customer is and what they need.
Sidekiq idempotent jobs: Neat thinking about background jobs and handling duplicate
- Try to be idempotent
- Gitlab uses redis to prevent duplicate jobs - a lock is taken when a job is enqueued
- 2 policies for preventing the same job entering processing more than once
  - Lock is taken when a task is enqueued and released “when running” or “when finished”
- They put TTLs on job locks in redis just in case a job doesn’t properly run or release a lock
Best practices for connecting Amazon ECS services in a VPC: Using an internal load balancer: This is how we’re setup to do it at work with a shared network load balancer.
Jenkins.io terraform code: Neat public repository of infrastructure terraform code for public jenkins server at jenkins.io
- Github repo: jenkinsio-terraform
- Github repo: jenkinsio-terraform-shared-tools
Jenkins Infrastructure: Readme detailing how to participate in the management of community run jenkins.io infrastructure

Jenkins

// Jenkinsfile from aws-sdk jenkins plugin
// Very simple call to a library function (sharedlib?)
// Looks like our buildApp function at work but
// also returns a pipeline definition
//
// Good validation of the idea

buildPlugin(useContainerAgent: true, configurations: [
        [platform: 'linux', jdk: 21],
        [platform: 'windows', jdk: 17],
])

source

Jenkins project ci build bot: Lots of interesting looking documentation linked here. Love the documentation of the build system and to organization around this project. I have some reading to do! :)