Tech Notes

Tech Notes: January 2021

My notes on information technology, technology, science and other matters, as taken from various podcasts, videos and other online flotsam. In effect, this page is a log of everything I've learned over these past 30 days, as summarized on Twitter. Some of this material I go on to use in my day job, as managing editor for The New Stack.

This month: Goodhart's Law and the difficulty of measuring performance; Rocky Linux picks up where CentOS left off; a data-aware shell; Jupyter Notebooks for SRE post-mortems; Optimization is at odds with efficiency; Configuration-as-code > Infrastructure-as-Code; the service mesh-as-security kernel; sudo's security woes; the revolution of movable type; and the costs of toxic masculinity.



Site Reliability Engineering














Linux
















Machine Learning














Data








Distributed Systems












Art of the Month Mernet Larsen's strange spatial dimensions (James Cohan gallery)





IT Operations
















Service Mesh








Development










Security










Open Source








Science






Technology History








Culture










Toxic Masculinity




















Art of the Month Audrey Stone's event horizons (Morgan Lehman Gallery)



Surveillance Capitalism








Editorial Process












The Creative Process










Curios








Twitter impressions, January 2021: 91,000


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