It started with me moving most of my written content from big platforms. Hence this website. The second, and lot more important for me, was liberating my e-mail. I have been a GMail user for a very long time. It’s an amazing product, making a lot of the hard stuff seem easy and natural. But unfortunately, it’s run by Google and it’s just scary how much of our online life is controlled by them nowdays. Long gone are the days of “Don’t be evil”.
I wrote a short post for the Reflex Capital blog about what you should do with free credits you get from your cloud provider. I have seen startups struggle with this more than once.
Czech version also available.
Determining the order of events in a distributed system isn’t straightforward, as the concept of “now” is relative. This article explores the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed systems and why relying on proven algorithms like Raft or Paxos may be essential.
One of the editions of Resilience Roundup, which is a newsletter dedicated to the topic of systems resilience, compiled by Thai Wood, talks about a paper from MIT’s Nancy Leveson called “The Role of Software in Spacecraft Accidents”. In this paper, the author studied five prominent disasters in aerospace industry with relation to software. Thai Wood does a much better job of summarizing the paper than I would, so I will not go over the whole paper here. Go read the newsletter linked above. I’d just like to focus on three of the themes written about in the paper.
At Reflex, we are using Samepage as our central communication tool. We send an occasional e-mail here and there, but most of our Powerteam agenda is covered by Samepage these days. But that was not always the case.
I have been running my website at taborsky.cz for more than twenty years now. At the beginning, I hosted everything myself, just because there was no other way. I hand-crafted my HTML, or used PHP for some simple templating to automate it.
Wrote another article for the Reflex Capital blog: ICO or IKO about why I think ICOs make little to zero sense.
Czech version is also available, as usual.
I published an article on our Reflex Capital blog about how we think about technology scalability, when we consider investing in a company. It’s not just about those thousands of requests.
Czech version is also available.
