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jasonwilder.com
Software developer interested in scalability, performance, databases and distributed systems. Currently working on AKS at Azure. Previously InfluxData.
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TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go. Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here. Two days later: WIP 5x speedup. HN: why pick Go anyway?

Did a talk this morning about my career and how to make an impact as an IC. Here's the last slide.

O11y 1.0 has many sources of truth, and three pillars -- metrics, logs and traces. For every request that enters your system you end up capturing it in a RUM tool, APM tool, tracing, profiling, etc O11y 2.0 has a single source of truth: wide, structured log events. jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-pract...

Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services “played a part in one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent memory.” www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/fact-checkin...

and so it begins... www.cjr.org/the_trump_re...

I can’t see RTO policies lasting long with RFK running things

Many folks don’t fully realize the breadth and depth of Microsoft’s contributions to open source. This blog post by @brendandburns.bsky.social summarizes work of 100s of people, moving forward the state of the art in cloud native, for the whole community. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11...

Go Turns 15 go.dev/blog/15years

I’m still amazed seeing Colin Farrel as the Penguin each week.