Number Go Favored Direction
A blog about software development, software ecosystems, reliability, statistics, measurement, and more.
Running List of Conjectures about System Stability
Just a quick list of thoughts I have about system stability. Alas, I have little data supporting these conjectures, all I have is distilled experience.
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 (likely just for my…
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.
AWS Lambda Gotchas
I’m far from the world’s biggest advocate of AWS lambda (or serverless computing more broadly), but I have used it for a few production applications. This post will…
Serendipity, Success, and Queueing Theory
An overly simple model of success might be: 1. Opportunities present themselves according to some distribution 1, with the payout from an opportunity largely a function of…
Abandon Underperforming Projects
It seems likely that the world would be a marginally better place if people and organisations abandoned underperforming projects more often. Underperforming projects are a…
Accessing Data from Public GCS Buckets
Recently, I wanted to access some data stored in a public google cloud storage (GCS) bucket. I could access the data by authenticating, but it seemed desirable to see how…
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…
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…
SEO, Meta Tags, and Absolute URLs
As mentioned elsewhere, this website uses Hugo with the PaperMod theme. Although I have not put any significant amount of effort into making it so this website is indexed by…
Expected Service Lifespan
Imagine you encounter a random production service. Knowing information beyond how long this service has been in production, how long should you expect that production…
Website Hosting
This website is a static site generated by Hugo with the PaperMod theme.
RSS Added
I’ve found RSS useful over the years and think that the world would be a marginally better place if more websites supported it (luckily, many still do, but newer websites…
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