Some albums you listen to. Some albums listen to you. 🎧 Wrote this for a prompt from underline.center/categories, an album that got me through a hard time. ashwiniag.com/some-albums-listen-to-you/

Some Albums Listen to You

This post is a response to a writing prompt from Underline Center: "Write about an album that got you through a hard time." It would be an injustice to pick just one album! Hard times have a tendency...

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Back from life's trenches. And looking forward to my present world. Lots of work ahead, back to building. 🖖

explaining CPU soft-lock to stakeholder in incident review Imagine a chef in a kitchen. Normally: take order → cook → serve → repeat. A soft-lock is when the chef gets stuck obsessively checking one ingredient. Forever. They're not dead but technically "working" and nothing is getting served #sre

Curiosity and excitement are the highest forms of aliveness. They only appear when the nervous system finally exhales. Finding them again after an extremely long time, is its own kind of homecoming.

Go has no native Set. map[key]bool vs map[key]struct{} are not same If you're storing millions of event IDs in map[int]bool instead of map[int]struct{}, you're wasting millions of bytes unnecessarily. At that scale it can tip pods over the memory limit & major incident #golang #sre #buildinpublic

One thing that took me a while to internalize in Go: make([]string, n) is is a declaration of intent You're telling the runtime: I know exactly how much space I need, give it to me now. Skip it and index directly → panic Small thing but expensive mistake in a hot path. #golang #sre #buildinpublic

I've been doing Linux for a long time. This is the first time I heard of Martian Packets I know what they are, I just didn't know they were called that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian...

Took a team from 450 alerts/week to 10. Cut security tooling cost from $10K to $420/year.Built RBAC that made a SOC audit a non-event Opening a few consulting spots. If your engineers are firefighting instead of shipping, let's talk. ashwiniag.com/consulting/ #SRE #Consulting #PlatformEngineering

Consulting

Available for consulting. Specializing in reliability architecture, release engineering, security automation, and infra for B2B SaaS startups

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Policies built on the assumption that inequality is"not that bad" may actually be making things worse. IMO this is something to be looked at seriously. Incredible work done by economics professors & bringing data to light. 🙌 www-thehindu-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theh... #india #inequality

I want to make something that moves people. And I want to be fully alive while making it.

🧵 "pattern recognition" is the real output of learning, not information retention. #EngineeringMindset #sre #SystemsThinking

Good engineers are the ones who have asked why more times and sat with the discomfort of not knowing until they genuinely figured it out. #buildinpublic

Friendship doesn't exempt people from accountability. In fact it requires more of it and not less.

The ability to regulate emotions independently is a valuable skill, not a character flaw.

Intentions live inside the person who acts. Impact lives inside the person who receives.

Self-awareness is a responsibility. #growthmindset #emotionalintelligence

Clean cruelty is easier to walk away from than inconsistent love. The grief is the proof of how much you tried. #boundaries #healing #selfworth

The hardest part is not dealing with emotionally immature people. It's the grief of accepting that someone you genuinely love doesn't have the capacity to meet you where you are. That grief is real. That's a specific kind of loss. And it's okay to grieve it. #mentalhealth #boundaries #selfworth

We use to have visionary leaders, now we just have capitalists riding all.

I love comprehending concepts through simplest analogies and not a fan of big words. If you've been confused by interfaces in Go, this one's for you. An old post, but it sure breaks the complexity with a silly analogy. Enjoy: ashwiniag.com/interfaces-i... #golang #go #programming #learninpublic

🧵 took up a new challenge building "Distributed Services with Go" by @travisjeffery.bsky.social following the book, writing as I learn and sharing what my curious mind finds along the way... pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-go/ #golang #distributedsystems #learninpublic #sre

Distributed Services with Go

Master the techniques, tools, and tricks that skilled Go programmers use every day.

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was working on a string problem in Go and hit this quietly len("café") returns 5, not 4. len() counts bytes, not characters. é is 2 bytes in UTF-8. use len([]rune(s)) when you actually want character count. the small things that matter in prod. #golang #go #learninpublic

wrote about the slice gotcha that bites every engineer in production. b := a doesn't copy your data, it copies the header. your original slice WILL be affected. ashwiniag.com/arrays-vs-sl... #golang #go

Arrays vs Slices in Go

Array: fixed, value type arr := [3]int{10, 20, 30} // size is part of the type * Fixed size, decided at compile time. [3]int and [4]int are different types. * Value semantics when you assign or p...

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And half of them think sarcasm counts as a personality. 😌

JA Westenberg@joanwestenberg.com · 5mo ago

The tech industry has produced more men who describe themselves as “funny” than any other industry in human history and I think we need to investigate this.

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Hunter-gatherer logic is a lazy excuse for modern inequality. 🤷‍♀️ #Anthropology #SystemicInequality

🧵 Last night I had a long discussion about gender, power, and systems with a friend. And somewhere in that conversation I realised something important about "how we talk and fail to talk" about inequality. #GenderEquality #MindsetShift #SystemsThinking #SexistSocialisation #Privilege #MenRights

Every tech CEO right now: "We need to move fast and break things" The thing they're breaking: their own terms of service The thing they're moving fast toward: a government contract

🧵 The Rebuttal Series: I’m turning every "small-minded" rebuttal from my stakeholder gigs into a gift of content. A devaluing discussion is usually a symptom of a deeper failure: in the architecture, the business model, or the fundamental understanding of the person in the room. #RebuttalSeries