- 10 Years of Let’s Encrypt: Let’s encrypt is just an incredible movement, philosophy and platform that really brought encryption to the web for everyone.
- Seven Years of Firecracker: Firecracker powers lambda and more recently the new dsql managed database, and amazon agent core! Tiny, super efficient virtual machines. Lovely tech.
- The hidden trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts: It’s harder to see issues in a rollout sometimes when it progresses slowly. When you move quicker you can see larger abnormalities. Fast and slow can be used together to choose failure domains where a deployment impacts a small number of users first and also enough users such that you can really get a sense of whether something is healthy or not.
- Streamlining Security Investigations with Agents: Slack talks about using the ‘super agent’ / ‘director + subordinates’ pattern to help analyze security events. Needle-in-a-haystack type problems may be the perfect use case for agents as we currently think of them.
- Bluesky chat between liz fong-jones and others about utility of llms: This was a fun one. I agree with several of the fundamental ideas here:
- Passing down skills from senior to junior engineers through mentorship is important
- The llm is a tool that requires the operator to know what they’re about using skills and past experience
- There are probably already some people doing well (eg aws that is selling access to compute for training and inference)
- We probably won’t completely crash out of this bubble in the way crypto currency did
- It’s hard to measure impact of the tool now (we have “vibes” about how people are “feeling”)
- There are a lot of people who want you to think the results are much more concrete
