This is a story about trying to rethink complex systems: the challenges you face when you try to rebuild them, the burdens you face as they grow, and how inaction itself can cause it’s own problems. When you’re weighing the risk and reward of replacing architecture…

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🧵Feeling retrospective. A year ago, Nathan & I returned from our daily walk. Our youngest told us that someone had rang the door & left when no one answered. My guess? That is it was someone delivering some sort of official legal document. I assumed Dave…

A giant private company is doing the work governments should be doing on regulation of user data. That’s not a good thing

This is a guest post by Matt Abrams (@abramsm), from Clearspring, discussing how they are able to accurately estimate the cardinality of sets with billions of distinct elements using surprisingly small data structures. Their servers receive well over 100…

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Shannon, who died in 2001, is regarded as one of the greatest electrical engineering heroes of all time. This profile, originally published in 1992, reveals the many facets of his life and work

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