Data

“The devil in the details [with #BI software] is not pointing out the obvious” — @pbailis, on @sisudata’s “insight engine,” a BI enhancement tool that seeks out high-cardinality data within database columns. @software_daily #podcast https://t.co/7WoAVSOAmY #DataScience

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 31, 2020

"San Francisco-based Credit Karma has been using GraphQL in production since 2017 and has steadily improved its deployment in the years since, developing its own federated GraphQL system." @TechJournalist @TechTarget https://t.co/3YsgWp941k #GraphQL

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 3, 2020

"A system which provides an absolute ordering of causally related events, regardless of observer, provides for a particularly strong guarantee of external consistency known as 'linearizability.'" @cockroachdb on synchronizing distributed systems (2016): https://t.co/jxu9ycwt4x

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 23, 2020

"Our service discovery system is resilient to various failure modes within #etcd, however, we did not anticipate a client being able to write a corrupt record due to improper HTTP handling." -- on @discordapp's recent server outage https://t.co/gWxpMBNRMQ #SRE #ServiceDiscovery

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 23, 2020

.@NASA decided to put its petabytes of data in the @awscloud cloud, before finding out it might be cost-prohibitive to actually download all that data for scientific research. https://t.co/nqdgehE951 #DataScience

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 19, 2020

#SQL: Fetching & Parsing with the SELECT statement https://t.co/HGhQghzkz8 #MySQL #DataScience #DBAdmin #Tutorial

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 13, 2020

How Databases "Relate" https://t.co/omjtxdCral #SQL #MySQL #DataScience #DBAdmin

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 13, 2020

I did one for #MySQL #DBAdmin tasks as well https://t.co/N9IXlyCyHu #WhatIdidfor #SocialDistancing

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 15, 2020

Dev

While most in the #Python community agree the language needed an overhaul — not the least for the long-overdue Unicode support. But many with working Python 2 code nonetheless are feeling frustration migrating to #Python3 -- @DavidCasselTNS @thenewstack https://t.co/LE5na3SLtP

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 18, 2020

"Everyone's insistence on getting rid of Python 2 is magically transforming all of this perfectly functional and useful Python 2 code we have from an asset to a liability." -- @thatcks https://t.co/XjkSaO69LV #Python #Python3

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 4, 2020

#NodeJS suffers from a poorly designed module system (that depends on #npm), too many legacy APIs, and a lack of security, its creator Ryan Dahl argues...https://t.co/OTqwF8rrja #JavaScript

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 2, 2020

.@GitHub plans to invest in npm’s infrastructure, with the hopes of bringing some much-needed modernization to the platform. It should also bring the some financial stability to the operation https://t.co/rwy9FQ4KIW #JavaScript #NodeJS #webdev #npm

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 16, 2020

Will hatin' on #GitOps be the new hatin' on microservices?!? 🧐https://t.co/4a3S1cqXzi

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 26, 2020

Operations

Using the new #EBPF-based version of @projectcalico, #Kubernetes users can ditch kube-proxy in favor of a higher-throughput, more scalable and less CPU-intensive #dataplane ... https://t.co/JMa7txnxJG #Linux #K8s @lxpollitt @tigeraio

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 17, 2020

The development team behind #Istio mark the 1.5 release as a major one for the project, one that demonstrates the success of their quarterly release cadence. This is the fifth release to meet the deadline of that schedule. https://t.co/mHv4Bpbake #K8s #ServiceMesh

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 19, 2020

Sounds like Google may need to buy another router 😂https://t.co/f384qJeBru @sjvn @ZDNet

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 26, 2020

"To deal with the load on its Teams platform, Microsoft has adjusted non-essential capabilities to help manage service quality. These include how often it checks for user presence, the time between when it shows when users are typing, and video resolution" https://t.co/BPMJZACGJm

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 31, 2020

Culture

"The problem is moving fast doesn’t work across industries or for all teams. To effectively move fast, you need processes in place to support the velocity. The consequences of moving too fast and not being able to fix things when they break are high." https://t.co/sRWND9vkAa

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 23, 2020

"Disregarding laws, rules and regulations was so entrenched in Uber's culture that managers within the company seemed to believe that various rules, including employment law and basic human decency, no longer applied to them." -- #SusanFowler, #Whistleblower #sexualharassment

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 1, 2020

“In California, employers of all types are rushing to file mass layoff notices, which are required by law to be sent to the state at least 60 days in advance of planned layoffs.” ⁦@protocol⁩ https://t.co/4lwPcCzOMn

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 23, 2020

“COVID-19’s destructive effects on budgets are impacting all organizations, regardless of size.” https://t.co/hcTrRiD9eI

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 27, 2020

“71 young musicians came together from isolation points across the country to be conducted in an online concert for the public.” https://t.co/IrvSSmhlf5

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 28, 2020

Security

In a #Kubernetes #security demo, @IanColdwater & @bradgeesaman show how to use a validating webhook on the API Server to covertly capture & send out any secrets being stored/changed on etcd. Another option: set up a shadow API Server. https://t.co/CN3Osc4BvF #RSAConference2020 pic.twitter.com/JPy4Xyl2I2

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 2, 2020

Quantum Computing/Mechanics

Is science an objective description of nature in our absence, or is it an extension of our conversations about nature, using terms with no external validity? @lexfridman’s conversation with Lee Smolin https://t.co/4Xj2FI5hNN #QuantumPhysics #Science #Philosophy #podcast

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 11, 2020

COVID-19

“Temperature and latitude may have a direct link to the spread and seasonality of COVID-19.” https://t.co/VcTcjjC5K5

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 11, 2020

almost a Hopper painting, the spaces between the figures. lone barren tree. awnings. but too much detail. https://t.co/I91977fe2Q

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) March 21, 2020

"And if you end up in intensive care, you’re not going to talk to your family anymore, probably: Patients get a helmet with oxygen on their heads, so they’re not able to speak on the phone." https://t.co/sEvcrtge0O

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 20, 2020

#SocialDistancing day 2: buying boujee foodstuffs to relieve the boredom... #Bushwick #NYC pic.twitter.com/ub3MLUSC53

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 19, 2020

“It was not at all clear that a nation so fundamentally committed to individual liberty and distrustful of government could learn to adapt to many of these measures, especially those that smack of state compulsion.” https://t.co/FLYffbl6zJ

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 23, 2020

What I'm hearing is take-out is OK, with proper precautions. Which is good because I'm already tired of my quarantined rations... https://t.co/Bw917Kb0v8 #COVID19

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 24, 2020

"We don't have time to site-adapt every single one, redesign every single facility" -- Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, on the @USACEHQ's four site plans for quickly retrofitting hotels/dorms/arenas/etc into hospitals. Currently 103 assessments under way https://t.co/CMvNuKyuAP via @msnbc

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 27, 2020

People are being "sent home to die." https://t.co/teoW2yZDHd #COVID19 #Detroit

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 27, 2020

Sone good news: #COVIDー19 hospital discharges in #NYC are trending up https://t.co/nCbaYfKqsO pic.twitter.com/rSJozW3eCR

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 29, 2020

All quiet on #Bushwick, except for the occasional howl of yet another ambulance... #Covid_19 pic.twitter.com/RY7RYx3RfG

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 28, 2020

Curios

Instructions for maintaining a Caterpillar F450 backhoe (or anything else really)... pic.twitter.com/Dv1YHF10gG

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 5, 2020

“For a decade, the right-to-repair battle cry has rattled around rarefied circles of digital-rights activists, techno-libertarians, and hands-on repair geeks—primarily on the East and West coasts. Now ... it’s tugging at the Farm Belt.” ⁦@business⁩ https://t.co/Fe6fTZe1r6

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 10, 2020

DropBox tries so hard to be anything more than just a shared file system... pic.twitter.com/eXeZEc95Wr

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) March 21, 2020