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After many years of working hard, my wife and I finally decided to have a kid recently. I am looking forward to spending a lot more time with her, while working just a 9-5. However, the AI boom seems like a short-lived,…

There's a lot of discussions on coding agents - and best practices for building a good coding agent. How are folks building devops agents that debug production outages? Any useful resources?

Folks who build/use distributed databases, what are some good examples of query profiling infra/UI for understanding where time was spent in query execution?

I recently moved to Salt Lake City, Utah as a remote worker. I have heard about the tech scene here but I'm not sure how to find it given that I have no friends here. I looked on Meetup but I didn't find any active tech…

I am thinking about moving to a fully remote role in my current team at one of the FAANG companies. I have been in my current team for 3 years and I have a good rapport with my colleagues. I have been working from home…

I am currently doing research on a new abstraction for files. For usecases, I am looking for applications that create/manage a lot of files (perhaps temporary files). I know that some mail servers store each email as a…