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Weekly notes: Spent some time this week thinking about readiness vs liveness of a task as we roll into ecs

Sep 1, 2025

  • Data engineering and software engineering are converging: Similar to how devops brought dev paractices to operations, moosestack does something similar for analytics time workflows
  • A deep dive into Amazon ECS task health and task replacement: Discussion of ecs unhealthy task replacement behaviour in amazon’s home grown container orchestrator
  • AI mode is good, actually: Sounds like google is getting better at having it’s ai find up to date information on the web
  • How to Build an MCP Server With Java SDK: Exposing a service in a way that an llm can make use of it by way the mcp (model-context-protocol) standard
  • How Tiny Chef captured the internet’s heart: This little guy on instagram is cute :)
  • Micrometer Mastery: Unleash Advanced Observability in your JVM Apps by Tommy Ludwig & Jonatan Ivanov: Micrometer is a cool observability tool that’s baked into spring boot and the spring framework
  • Nothing fails like a history of success: A process / migration having succeeded in the past doesn’t mean it’ll succeed in the future. There’s always going to be risk when you’re changing something

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