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a small package with good intentions can accumulate both a large set of dependents and a large set of dependencies, turning it into a vector for bloat and malfeasance.
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From one piece What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's important, though, whatever concurrency model you provide, to do it exactly once, because an environment providing multiple concurrency implementations can be problematic.
What We Got Right, What We Got Wrongcommandcenter.blogspot.com
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Concurrent code only goes faster when parallelized if the underlying problem is intrinsically parallel, like serving HTTP requests.
What We Got Right, What We Got Wrongcommandcenter.blogspot.com
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It's a mistake common to engineers everywhere to confuse the solution and the problem like this.
What We Got Right, What We Got Wrongcommandcenter.blogspot.com
6 December 2023
From one piece Simplicity 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Because of the multiplicative effects of complexity, getting 2% performance improvement by adding 2% complexity-or 1% or maybe even .1%-isn't worth it.
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Complex systems are never fast, because they have too many parts with poorly understood interactions to be optimized.Their words
But complex systems are NEVER fast-they have more pieces and their interactions are too poorly understood to make them fast. Complexity generates inefficiency.
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Complexity is multiplicative. In a system, like Google, that is assembled from components, every time you make one part more complex, some of the added complexity is reflected in the other components.
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what we learn through our education has always been filtered by those who came after the events.
My black body story (it's physics).commandcenter.blogspot.com
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