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New comment by whoevercares in "How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms"

whoevercares — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:42:31 +0000

Token bucket is all you need

New comment by whoevercares in "Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed"

whoevercares — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:57:15 +0000

My guess is SRE culture is a tough sell at Anthropic. When you’re a frontier lab, almost everything else looks more prestigious and more immediately “impactful”.

New comment by whoevercares in "Replacing Protobuf with Rust"

whoevercares — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:49:01 +0000

Flatbuffers are fine - I think it is used in many places that needs zero-copy. Also outside google, it powers the Arrow format which is the foundation of modern analytics

New comment by whoevercares in "vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep"

whoevercares — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:47:18 +0000

Absolutely. LLM inference is still a greenfield — things like overlap scheduling and JIT CUDA kernels are very recent. We’re just getting started optimizing for modern LLM architectures, so cost/perf will keep improving fast.

New comment by whoevercares in "MCP is a fad"

whoevercares — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:43:53 +0000

From an enterprise adoption standpoint, remote MCP addresses the connector problem and can be easily retrofitted into enterprise-wide gateway services. In contrast, building tools is significantly more expensive for enterprises with large, existing API surfaces.

Most of the concerns can be addressed by a gateway service

New comment by whoevercares in "2025 Letter"

whoevercares — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:53:49 +0000

many people especially those with chronic illnesses died because Zero-COVID blocked access to basic medical care and food. Those deaths were policy-driven and avoidable.

New comment by whoevercares in "2025 Letter"

whoevercares — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:38:10 +0000

Zero-COVID was an absolute disaster. It involved severe human rights violations and caused immense social and economic damage, including unnecessary displacement, homelessness, and even deaths. The number is lower sure, but China had the capacity to do much better

New comment by whoevercares in "Avoid Mini-Frameworks"

whoevercares — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:14:19 +0000

I don’t blame the dev teams who ended up creating mini-frameworks. In many big tech companies, central framework teams are chronically underfunded. What I do blame are ego-driven mini-frameworks built by senior principal+ engineers that don’t actually solve real problems.

New comment by whoevercares in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

whoevercares — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:54:03 +0000

China has been a developing country for most the time of the past 25 years. It is indeed a huge problem if it is still rising rapidly. But it is also not fair to limit China’s per capita growth for most of the past two decades

New comment by whoevercares in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

whoevercares — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:49:02 +0000

It is 8.89 China vs 14 according to https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...

New comment by whoevercares in "OpenSearch 3.0 Released"

whoevercares — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:10:22 +0000

I thought Elastic as the company has been economically damaged by OpenSearch and AWS for many years.

New comment by whoevercares in "Evolving Scala"

whoevercares — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:58:53 +0000

Hmm very good point!

New comment by whoevercares in "Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras"

whoevercares — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:31:35 +0000

Same story back in 2016, they either laid off or pivoted heavily on the production plan. Can’t trust those real sense folks

New comment by whoevercares in "Evolving Scala"

whoevercares — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:29:12 +0000

There’s another reason for the decline of Scala - much less people are writing Spark code in Scala. At peak I think Spark accounted for a large portion of Scala’s growth

New comment by whoevercares in "Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)"

whoevercares — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:58:32 +0000

Does anyone tell their manager they are leaving and still expecting anything nowadays? I thought dive-and-save is very rare since the flattening trend happened (esp. in big tech)

New comment by whoevercares in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

whoevercares — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:14:59 +0000

Good news is the system in China frequently get in the way - people with connections wins the government or state owned businesses contract, making it tougher for many innovators to strive with a shrinking private-owned/consumer-demand environment

(Source: frustrated friends who lose the government contract to someone with inferior technology)

New comment by whoevercares in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

whoevercares — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:54:57 +0000

Computer vision and deep learning conferences have been overwhelmed with Chinese authors since many years ago. No surprises. However the quality of the work skyrocketed recently

New comment by whoevercares in "Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)"

whoevercares — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:20:09 +0000

There was a talk in 2023 of a non-TCP based protocol, Homa in RPC for data center use-case https://youtu.be/xQQT8YUvWg8?si=g3u5TogBe0_QpPpj.

New comment by whoevercares in "Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)"

whoevercares — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:17:18 +0000

gRPC is indeed for backend service to service calls with strong contract/model first approach. It’s important for company in serious API and SDK vending business.

New comment by whoevercares in "Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design"

whoevercares — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:11:20 +0000

Netflix, Coinbase, Spotify and several big/medium tech company pretty much all in gRPC. I guess there must be a problem with the haters here who could not get the value