- Agentic Testing: Where Agents Fit in the E2E Testing Stack:
Slack tries e2e testing using agents given outcomes and freedom to explore the
application vs discrete steps to get there. Agents still fail, they get to the
goals more often than not, they don’t often take the same path twice, and
they’re expensive.
- Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale:
James Hamilton talks about better datacenter networking using flat networks (
ie a flattening of the switch hierarchy we see in most datacenters these days)
and random interconnects / path planning.
- How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight:
A modern javascript heavy site fails and is rewritten in an html-first style
using a frontend framework called astro which allegedly is simpler? Possibly
no build step … Frontend complexity has grown quite a bit in the last 10y or
so sadly.
