Stories by slyall

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret in 4y running infra at a startup

Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

Lessons Learned: 1000 Days of Distributed Working at Atlassian

What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay

Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs [video] - Eng Mgr @ OpenAI

A Giant Leap for the Leap Second. Is Humankind Ready for the Leap Minute?

Building Meta's Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

16 years ago, we made the first commit to what would eventually be GitHub/GitHub

Statement from Creative Commons: Making AI Work for Creators and the Commons

Review of the .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023 [pdf]

Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud

Qwen is a large language model series by Alibaba Cloud

Digital Strategy at Radio New Zealand, 2005-2016, Part Four

Googlecloud dropped our 1M req/day quota causing our site to alarm and error out

When Tech Says ‘No’

Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years - 13 exabytes/day of transfers

We Scaled Grafana Cloud Logs’ memcached cluster to 50TB and improved reliability

LED lights are meant to save energy. They’re creating glaring problems

6 Reasons You Don't Need an SRE Team

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