Residuality Theory: A Rebellious Take on Building Systems That Actually Survive

https://www.architecture-weekly.com/p/residuality-theory-a-rebellious-take

#resiliency #systemsarchitecture

@futuresprog
I think this tallies with @peterzeihan 's view that competence is not necessarily encouraged to stick around in some leadership circles, when the priority is that the leader be surrounded by "yes people" (rather than those who understand the subject matter and try to explain why something might not be the best idea).
#leadership #politics #systemsArchitecture #systems

@glyph
I hear you.

My favourite (perhaps less jarring?) example is when a court declares they have found someone guilty, and that their threshold of guilt is "on balance of odds".

I look at the lawyers and the witnesses and realise that none of them has studied actuarial or probability mathematics. I wouldn't even trust them to understand a bet on the horses. For a scientist to watch them is like observing a cargo cult. Worse, I am sure, is for a scientist to find themselves on the receiving end of such a court.

I would offer the meagre consolation that you can see the feedback loops that drive them to behave so, where they think themselves to have free will.

#cybernetics #actuarial #odds #maths #math #statistics #science #scientificInquiry #systemsArchitecture #justice #law #policing #cargoCult

But, I have done something that is super cool and I have nobody to share it with, and nothing to show for it besides some passing tests.

https://github.com/zeyus/liblsl.dart/blob/main/packages/liblsl/ (readme is outdated, see tests)

HMU if you're a #softwareengineering , #networkengineering , #systemsarchitecture or #designpattern nerd, I'd love feedback and suggestions for improvement (or just question my sanity)

#dart #flutter #crossplatform #development #softwaredevelopment #c #ffi #dartnative

We’re excited to kick off our new video series featuring speakers from the Software Architecture Gathering! 🤩

In episode 1, @diana talks about overcoming silos, Conway’s Law, event-driven architecture, building trust, and diversity in tech. 👉 https://t1p.de/no0s9

#SAGconf #SAG2024 #SoftwareArchitecture #SystemsArchitecture #ConwaysLaw #EventDrivenArchitecture #ArchitecturePractices #AgileArchitecture #SoftwareDevelopment #iSAQB

While it appears that everyone else has posted this (for good reason), there remains a chance that someone just arrived and might have missed the talk by (then) US Navy Captain Grace Hopper, "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People", at the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1982.

Split across two videos posted on YouTube, this talk covers such a range of topics with such insight and current applicability and with Feynman level wit and style [Both praise and description] that I won't try to list any, but refer you to the previous posts.
Watch both, but if some tragic constraint prevents this, then watch the (slightly shorter) second video.

Rear Admiral Hopper retired from the US Navy - for the second time - in 1986 at the age of 79.

https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/
https://youtu.be/si9iqF5uTFk
https://youtu.be/AW7ZHpKuqZg

#GraceHopper #USNavy #NSA #Computer #SystemsArchitecture #Scaling #Cluster #Portability #InfoSec #Diversity #Mathematics #Physics #Leadership #Management #CriticalThinking #Inspiration

I'm #JobSeeking!

If you do interesting things in the #DistributedSystems space that aren't predicated on market-based solutionism, I would love to come write #Rust & #JavaScript apps or work on #SystemsArchitecture and infrastructure with you. I also do pretty decent #CareWork and #CommunityManagement in teams which aspire to be human-centered.

I'm especially interested in roles within organizations lead by #queer and #FirstNations peoples and #anarchist groups doing #MutualAid efforts.

"Architect disease": New #software #architect comes in, tells you to throw out everything, knows the perfect solution for you, with technologies none of your staff are familiar with, takes 3 years to roll out, by which point they've lost interest or moved on
#systems #architecture #SoftwareArchitecture #SystemsArchitecture #ArchitectDisease

Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture

https://slack.engineering/slacks-migration-to-a-cellular-architecture/

"...we have migrated the most critical user-facing services at Slack from a monolithic to a cell-based architecture over the last 1.5 years. In this series of blog posts, we’ll discuss our reasons for embarking on this massive migration, illustrate the design of our cellular topology along with the engineering trade-offs we made along the way" -- #CooperBethea #slack

#api360 #cloud #systemsArchitecture

How will we continue to model ever evolving techniques? How might we include them in and #SystemArchitecture #SystemsArchitecture and the concepts of sensor analytics ecosystems #SensAE and other ecosystems, especially in digital twins and #causal #DigitalTwins #CDT

It's really difficult to communicate, but there is a notable difference in the quality of output between approaching a problem to actually solve said problem and approaching a problem to get people to stop bugging you. Where I work, there is an overabundance of the latter, while my brain is basically hard-wired for the former. Where we collide == stresssssssss 🤕 🥀
#work #professional #AdultingIsHard #WorkLife #SystemsArchitecture

Are any #MastoAdmins running their instances in Azure? I’m learning #Azure #SystemsArchitecture at work and would be curious to know how you guys designed your Azure bits to deliver this kind of service! Bonus points if it’s a relatively large instance (eg, has more than just a few friends on it). Sub and VNet designs, what App and other services you chose to use, weird things you encountered and how you identified and mitigated that weirdness, etc. Anyone want to #shareYouExperience ? 🤗

Hey Fediverse,

I'm urgently looking for some #Freelance #work. I have over 20 years of experience in tech and specialise in:

#SystemsArchitecture
#InfrastructureArchitecture
#golang
#python
#kubernetes
#linux
#SRE
#devops
#DistributedSystems

Located in #Berlin or #remote

If you need someone like this, shoot me a message!

Boosts very welcome!