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Steve Faulkner

5 years

Playing a lot with JavaScript proxies lately and realized you can do runtime detection of forgetting to "await" a promise.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 months

Might get this one framed

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

1 year

Announcing my AWS Systems Design course

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 months

@threepointone >how onions and garlic save the world Would read that blog post

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

Since joining Microsoft, 100% of the code I have written is open source. Feeling jazzed about it.

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Steve Faulkner

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-1,0000,00x Engineer

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Steve Faulkner

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7 years

"Not ANOTHER framework! JavaScript is getting ridiculous" But then ...

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

Don't know who needs to hear it, but software engineering comp has become bimodal. If you are in the lower peak, go browse . All the top companies are offering remote because of the pandemic. Many permanently.

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@GergelyOrosz

4 years

A sw engineer with 4 years experience at Apple/Twitter will probably make more than one with 20 years at Comcast. Why? Leverage & profit margins per engineer. And because Apple & Twitter want to hire the (perceived) "top" talent. Comcast cannot/will not do the same.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 months

@kevinvangundy And give Linus the satisfaction. I think not. And honestly who's more likely to be right? Me or Linus?

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

GraphQL: Types and ids make caching query nodes simple! Only fetch what you need. GraphQL Clients: Today we are releasing v9 of our caching system. Please read these 4 pages of docs before even attempting to use it.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 months

Fun-employment has ended! Started this week @Cloudflare on Workers. So many exciting things in the pipeline. Can't wait to share it with you all PS: We're hiring

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

Seeing several "HTTP2 makes GraphQL obsolete!" takes Misses a massive benefit of GraphQL: developer experience. Tons of frontend devs love GraphQL and don't give a crap about the wire format.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 months

Bittersweet news. Today was my last day at Vercel. New opportunity came my way I could not pass up. I'm super grateful to all the Vercelians I have worked with over the past 2.5 years. Its been the highlight of my career.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

Gate's Law: Any system technically capable of emailing everyone at Microsoft will eventually be used to email everyone at Microsoft

Carmen Crincoli - @crincoli.org

@CarmenCrincoli

3 years

Someone just submitted a PR Github, asking for review...to the entire Azure org. Like, everyone. If that's not tens of thousands of employees, I will be shocked. This should be a fun set of reviews for them.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were *very* hard to find. Trust me, I tried. Today, right now, they are the norm. My rec is to lock that in before the pendulum swings back. Might not be there in another year.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

I have some exciting news to share... 🌌Today I am joining the @AzureCosmosDB team at @Microsoft !🌌

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

A couple anecdotes I've heard recently about dev job market: 1. UI devs are now much harder to hire than backend devs 2. VCs telling startups they have to hire remote because they can't hire in SF

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

🚨 Azure CosmosDB is hiring 🚨 - Work on Portal/SDKs/DevTools - .NET, Java, JS, Python - Remote possible! DM me for more info

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 months

@VicVijayakumar I decided to open my son a gmail account and I send him increasing numbers of emails each year. No one should have the luxury of starting from inbox zero.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

What's next? 🎉🎉🎉 In two weeks I join the engineering team @vercel 🎉🎉🎉

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

@kwuchu I'm also skeptical of all "we rewrote it" blogs. I rewrote stuff from Ruby to Node that got way better. I think it's because you know the issues first system and can fix them in the process. Makes it hard to draw any real conclusions about the language.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

Those of us doing #serverless in production, we don't hate containers. We just don't care. They don't matter to us anymore.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

new job! day one

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 months

Durable Objects are amazing in so many ways.But I had to join Cloudflare to fully understand them. We're gonna fix that.

sunil pai, qed

@threepointone

3 months

I really need to remove all the mysticism around durable objects. Everyone thinks it’s exotic tech for niche usecases but it’s just a server that spins up instantly and sticks around for as long as you need it

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

10 months

The most amazing part of is that someone got the greenlight to build it. This is not AWS's normal vibe.

PartyRock

An Amazon Bedrock playground

partyrock.aws

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

2 years

I can stop anytime I want

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

What's stopping you from coding like this?

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

Idk who needs to hear this but... Clever code names for internal services are annoying for people who come after you. Name the service so it is obvious what it does.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

I'm sad about RBG. But I'm also feeling shame. That so much rides on a single person's life. How incredibly selfish of us.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

The top article on hacker news is on AWS Lambda cold starts. I am debating with an AWS engineer on twitter. People are trying to sell me K8s. It must be 2017 and somehow I am moving backwards through time

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 months

@alexbdebrie I may have taken the sarcasm too far this time

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

1 year

When did Chrome add this option to DevTools?

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

By building Lambda as they have, AWS effectively stamped a big "DEPRECATED" on containers. People are freaking out accordingly. They should be.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

1 year

@sixwing But seriously a newsletter where how you subscribe is via s3 object lifecycle is just a fantastic idea. I might actually build this.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

Credit to @danluu who has a great post about this . I think its 5+ years old now? Since then the high end has only gotten higher.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

2 years

🤣 Is this intentional? If marketing was trying to get me to tweet this company then bravo 👏

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

Please call your local TC39 representative and ask them to support this

TypeScript

@typescript

3 years

Could we have TypeScript with no build step? Could we have types in JavaScript? Maybe! We're exploring bringing optional type syntax into the JavaScript language!

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

Looking for an interesting open source JavaScript codebase to learn from? Check out @withspectrum . The code and docs are both very well organized. I'm picking up some neat ideas while spelunking tonight.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

@SeaRyanC You calling out my quitting story as a fake?

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

🚨 On-call alert severity 2 🚨 Yesterday was my last day at Microsoft. I immensely enjoyed my time there. I'm going to miss everyone @AzureCosmosDB and many more

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

Does your GraphQL replacement have a type system, schema introspection, and GraphiQL-like API explorer that works out of the box with every API? You need these to replace GraphQL

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

This is straight black magic. 10 minutes and I had my entire app running using webpack-dev-server *in the browser*

StackBlitz

@stackblitz

3 years

Today we’re excited to bring Node.js back to its roots - the browser! Together with @googlechrome and @vercel , we're enabling a new type of development and debugging experience that was not possible before: 🧵

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 months

@patio11 A realtor once told me that title insurance was antiquated and unnecessary in 95% of the US. Philadelphia was a notably in the 5%.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

@kwuchu JavaScript. There is a real advantage to a single language across the whole stack.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

I requested your review on my PR but you did not approve it forgive me for merging anyways the tests passed and the change was so small

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

I'm at a lecture by Richard Stallman. He is talking about privacy and tracking. There is also a sign-in sheet going around. This must be a test.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

@rauchg Anything at the CPU layer. Manipulating billions of nanometer-scale devices to smash together 1s and 0s? Absolutely blows my mind.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

2 years

Magical time of year... Leaves falling 🍂 Getting colder outside ❄️ Developers submitting PRs titled "Subtract one hour from test fixture" ⏲️

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

Took a quick survey of the local doctors - Percent who want a plane fly over: 0% - Percent who want more PPE: 100%

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 months

IT Department: What is your name? "southpolesteve" IT Department: No your full legal name "Southern Polar Steven"

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

I wrote up some thoughts today on GraphQL+Lambda in production

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 months

@AdamRackis Gotta make sure to sort the keys. No worries. Just use the package ... oh wait. Dammit

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

flight attendant: is there a doctor onboard? me: points to person next to me, "she is!" My partner is an emergency physician and I am very proud of her

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

Now that @typescript has released 4.1 with template literal types, who is working on this ORM?

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@southpolesteve

5 years

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

Today I copied data from GitHub into an Excel spreadsheet. I briefly entertained the idea of automating it. But there was no time before the status meeting. Possibly related: I am now an engineering manager.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

Related: "infrastructure as code" is a wrong. Most of these tools are "infrastructure as config files". Important distinction.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

By 35 you should have at least 10 urls to renew every year for side projects you will never complete

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 months

mongoDB started as a poor database with amazing DX and then spent a decade becoming a good database. The lesson of the 2010's was DX-first wins

dax

@thdxr

4 months

whenever i hear people talk shit about mongodb it reminds me to what extent everyone is just repeating things without thinking or understanding

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

Any web experts out there know why "." is stripped from URLs? Having a "." in a URL path works fine unless it is the only character:

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

Minor Life Announcement We are moving to Chicago next June 🌬️🏙️

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

2 years

@matheusfrndes @leeerob

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

1 year

@71iQz They are if you believe it in your heart

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 months

Servers -> Many users. Many Requests Serverless Functions -> One per request Durable Objects -> One per *user*. Many requests

sunil pai, qed

@threepointone

3 months

This has unlocked something, unsure how to deal with implications. Starting a "session" for every user, logged in or not (remix or whatever, not relevant) has made thinking of 1.observability 2.architecture 3.interactions more... concrete? This might take headspace for a while.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

1 year

@maggiepint Why sell one book when you can sell three?

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

2 years

Minor life update. My brother in law got me this shirt

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

I am often tempted to engage container folk thought leading about #serverless . But slowly realizing I am not their target audience. It is other container people. They are trying to ensure their tribe they will still exist in the new world.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

I regularly walk by this unoccupied Chicago fire station. If capitalism actually worked this would already be a Ghostbusters themed bar.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

@mattjohnsonpint

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

#wishlist : VS code plugin that colors lines of code based on how often they are called in a running program. Think flamegraph + code coverage overlayed on the source code.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

Wondering how to use GraphQL with @AzureCosmosDB ? I published a demo app just for you

GitHub - southpolesteve/graphql-cosmos-demo: A demo of Azure Cosmos DB with GraphQL and Apollo...

A demo of Azure Cosmos DB with GraphQL and Apollo Server - southpolesteve/graphql-cosmos-demo

github.com

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

@bitandbang git is the best. It often knows exactly what you want to do, tells you it knows, and then refuses to do it.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

If you think "microfrontends" is a great idea, I want to get drinks and tell you some war stories

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

10 months

Entered the world of espresso at home. First try at a cortado was… not great. Only up from here!

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

"zero config" is strange developer marketing. It's not what I want. I would settle for: "has sensible defaults but also configurable without hiring a core team member"

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

🎉🎉🎉 Announcement: Today is my last day at Bustle! 🎉🎉🎉 I've already got a new gig, but I'm going to wait to tell you because that is what people do on twitter dot com Hint: It isn't serverless

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

[ [ @nodejs ], [ @the_jsf ] ].smoosh()

Node.js

@nodejs

6 years

Today, the #Nodejs Foundation announced an intent to merge with @the_jsf 🎉 We believe there needs to be a tighter integration between both Foundations to enable greater support for Node.js and a broader range of JavaScript projects 📰 and FAQ

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 months

@mscccc Msft engineer: promo? I literally saved the world Sorry. But probably next review cycle

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

It is working! Happy to announce that #serverless fad it OVER. We're all going back to servers. Thanks, everyone. It has been a trip.

Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

Haven't built a computer in almost a decade. About to change that.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 months

Wish ya'll could taste this one. Roaster is Dak from Amsterdam. Tastes like fresh berries

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

9 months

"What are you doing?" "Arguing with ChatGPT to create a Christmas card"

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

Call your Italian grandma. Tell her goodbye. Steve is your grandma now

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

2 years

Imagine running CI except every time its on a random machine configured slightly differently. That's what pre-commit hooks are.

Mike Coutermarsh

@mscccc

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+1. I disable all pre-commit hooks. Too slow. Pushing "broken" code is good. let CI deal with it.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

2 years

Sourdough. Avocado. Salt. Black Truffle Chili Crisp.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

50 degrees today but caught some pics earlier in the week of ice breaking up in the Chicago River

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

Apple throwing shade with their "Windows PC" icon in migration assistant

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

4 years

@ken_wheeler Looking at a TV over a fireplace:

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

13 years

"I had more than a healthy dose of fear, and an unlimited amount of hope, and more importantly, no limit on time and effort" - @mcuban

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

2 years

Dear software vendors. I make all contract renewal decisions based on if your site automatically redirects me to login with Okta. If you make me click a "login with SSO" button you are getting replaced.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

Buried in the middle of this is something I want to highlight. The official @southpolesteve benchmark for CI/CD: Can a non-technical person make a change to text or copy on your website or in your documentation, and how fast can that change be deployed to production?

The New Stack

@thenewstack

6 years

Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture #Serverless

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

7 years

@mxstbr @aghh1504 @GraphQL I just wrote a comment bout GraphQL vs Rest

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 years

Also #databaseless . You heard it here first.

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

Just published @azure /cosmos v3 to npm! Lots of new stuff in this major release so I wrote up some notes and a migration guide

Release 3.0.0 · Azure/azure-cosmos-js

🎉 v3 release! 🎉 Many new features, bug fixes, and a few breaking changes. Primary goals of this release: Implement major new features: DISTINCT queries LIMIT/OFFSET queries User cancelable reques...

github.com

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

I'm reminded this morning that "Cloud Native" would have been a better term for all the things we labeled "Serverless"

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

3 years

The infra team @vercel is world class. Wanna come work with us? Send me a DM. We are hiring both engineers and managers

Matheus Fernandes

@matheusfrndes

3 years

is peaking at 93x more traffic than the average day. The best part? Our product teams focused on delivering the experience, not the infra. ISG, SSR, Serverless & Edge Functions performing at their finest. *Very* proud of the infra team @vercel 😌

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

5 years

Therapist: And what do when our JavaScript API doesn't work? Me: Hack it together with proxies Therapist: No

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

6 months

New morning routine: 1. Wake up early with partner #1 2. Text partner #3 3. Immediate exposure natural light 4. Drive to meet up with partner #5 5. Hydrate 6. Leave partner #5 to get coffee with partner #4 8. Cold Plunge 10. Breakfast with partner #2 All done before 5pm!

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Steve Faulkner

@southpolesteve

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Yes, I am also looking for a blue sky invite

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