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My 2024 thoughts on the state of social media

It’s the time of year where I’m reflecting on the state of social media and my use of it. Two years ago, The Muskover occurred , and since then activity that used to be concentrated there has is now scattered across several social media networks. My reading and posting to social media has reflected that […]

Are you the nerd of the year??

Whenever you ask for something with Bluesky they tell you about how a user account is like a website, you just have to make it work a certain way, that some devs have mastered, and I guess I could too, but right now all my attention is focused on WordPress and getting it to work […]

Datalore On-Premises or Cloud: Which Suits You Best? | The Datalore Blog

In an era where data is the new currency, the ability to quickly gain actionable insights can be a game-changer for businesses and research institutions alike. Shortening the feedback loop between data scientists, analysts, and business intelligence teams can lead to more agile and responsive strategies, ultimately speeding up innovation and optimizing operations.  JetBrains has […]

2024 is different from 2016

© copyright 1994-2024 Dave Winer. Last update: Wednesday November 13, 2024; 4:57 PM EST. You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you’re about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won’t do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that […]

Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables […]

Adopting Bazel for Web at Scale

How and Why We Migrated Airbnb’s Large-Scale Web Monorepo to Bazel By: Brie Bunge and Sharmila Jesupaul At Airbnb, we’ve recently adopted Bazel — Google’s open source build tool–as our universal build system across backend, web, and iOS platforms. This post will cover our experience adopting Bazel for Airbnb’s large-scale (over 11 million lines of […]

How Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring

Cryptographic monitoring at scale has been instrumental in helping our engineers understand how cryptography is used at Meta. Monitoring has given us a distinct advantage in our efforts to proactively detect and remove weak cryptographic algorithms and has assisted with our general change safety and reliability efforts. We’re sharing insights into our own cryptographic monitoring […]