Some Weather Statistics
I know some of these statistics are out there on the internet, but searching for them takes time (even in a world with LLMs), so compiling them here.
Number Go Favored Direction
A blog about software development, software ecosystems, reliability, statistics, measurement, and more.
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Running List of Conjectures about System Stability
Just a quick list of thoughts I have about system stability.
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Some Language Statistics
I know many of these statistics are out there on the internet, but searching for them takes time, so this post collects a bunch of them in one place.
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Regression toward the Mean
Regression toward the mean is a statistical phenomena that, once you notice it, you cannot help but notice how surprisingly ubiquitous it is.
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AWS Lambda Gotchas
AWS Lambda is a cost efficient and robust compute service, but comes with (sometimes painful) limitations.
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Serendipity, Success, and Queueing Theory
An overly simple model of success might be: Opportunities present themselves according to some distribution , with the payout from an opportunity largely a function of the...
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Abandon Underperforming Projects
It seems likely that the world would be a marginally better place if people and organisations abandoned underperforming projects more often.
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Accessing Data from Public GCS Buckets
Recently, I wanted to access some data stored in a public google cloud storage (GCS) bucket.
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Best Practices are (at least partially) Scale Dependent
Something that seems to hold true across all organisation sizes is that (at least a sizeable subset of) software developers are opinionated (with perhaps the number of opinionated...
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EC2 Network Bandwidth
I wasn't going to bother writing this up (as I hoped the documentation had improved), but it's surprisingly difficult to get the non-burstable network bandwidth for an EC2...
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SEO, Meta Tags, and Absolute URLs
Note: This post describes my previous Hugo-based site setup.
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Expected Service Lifespan
Imagine you encounter a random production service, how long should you expect it to remain production?
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Website Hosting
Note: This post describes my previous Hugo-based site setup.
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RSS Added
Note: This post describes my previous Hugo-based site setup.