Interested in how we test systems at Amazon? In a new article in Communications of the ACM, Ankush and I write about the evolution of systems correctness and testing practices at AWS. We cover classic and formal approaches, and new ones like deterministic simulation. cacm.acm.org/practice/sys...

Current London 2025: Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, AI... and some drama. www.streamingdata.tech/p/current-lo...

Current London 2025

Keynote

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As reliable as Google Drive is, when viewed as an external system, it's a single point of failure. That's why we backup all data that's stored there - Jakub shares our approach, accompanied by an OSS project! softwaremill.com/how-we-appro...

How We Approached Google Drive Backups in Our Workspace Organization

Have you ever considered the risk of being locked out of your data? To mitigate this risk, we implemented domainwide Google Drive backups.

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Replace "github" with "gitingest" in the url, and you get the whole repo as a single string that you can then paste in your LLMs

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network - in @pragmaticengineer.com's Real-World Engineering Challenges series newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

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