Hello everybody, and everywhere!

I hope all of you are fine and doing well.

I am starting a series of HighLoad-related posts today.

The first one is a comprehensive introduction to the main concepts of designing robust and reliable systems.

Grab some tea; you will need it.

Read on ivanzakutnii.com
or on DEV.TO

Hey, bandits!

I've dug up and resurrected my old third post in the series about the Declarative Computation Model!

Check it out, it's mind-boggling stuff.

Read on ivanzakutnii.com
or on DEV.TO

Week of production incidents, LMAO.

So there's been a delay, but here it is, another hefty letter mattress.

Sometimes I wonder, does anyone actually read these? Or is it time to write bullshit like:

"TOP TEN GITHUB REPOS EVERY REACT DEVELOPER SHOULD STAR"?

Just kidding. Only the tough topics here for tough men.

We're continuing with the highload saga, folks.

New post:

On ivanzakutnii.com
on DEV.TO

Hey,
Lemme take a break from the HighLoad saga.

Here is a solid bunch of theory on how to reason about dependencies in software engineering.
(yet, this is highly applicable in practice, of course, if digested by brains.)

The material might feel a bit clumsy, but I tried my best.

This one is only on ivanzakutnii.com

There is literally no reason to post it on dev.to trashyard, lol.

Fixing the link, sorry))))) telegram is trimming dots 😄

Rendering Deckhouse's CustomPrometheusRules in Jinja templates be like:

```
namespace: "{{ '{{' }}`{{'{{' }} $labels.namespace {{ '}}' }}`{{ '}}' }}"
```

Gotemplates in Jinja templates, aalksdjflkjqhwe;fnalxncv

Highload saga, here we go again. The main subject is the same, but today we're taking a sneak peek at some relatively low-level things we need to know about data storage subsystems.

Read on ivanzakutnii.com or on dev.to

Hello, no memes today.
New part of the highload saga. Basic things about OLTP/OLAP differences and how OLAP storage systems essentially work.

read here, or here
Until next time.

@ Time is passing.
@ Job titles changes.
@ My son is grows.
@ Codding more, codding less.
@ AI and Web3 hyping around.
@ It doesn't matter.
...
I am still the guy fucking with databases at night.

The nature of time is a cause of numerous bugs in computer systems, and not only. Take a look at this great post about time from Marc Brooker:

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/11/27/about-time.html#foot10

Thus shall you think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
The Diamond Sutra

Hello.
Nothing technical today, really.
Just some thoughts that struck me a few days ago.

https://ivanzakutnii.com/blog/I-have-tried-to-love-Python

By the way, there is Twitter.
https://twitter.com/m0n0x41d

I got this beauty today.

At last, I bought something for myself! :D

ChatGPT is not your friend.

I have no doubts that you know about the "personal data flow" business; it is an old story — giant companies are "stealing" our data and selling it to each other.

I am not paranoid (maybe a little). They are not stealing. We are simply a herd willingly giving it to them.

So, OpenAI is no different at all.

There are a few amusing legal issues with them using YouTube videos for ML, but there's more from my recent experience.

A few days ago, I was having a small talk with ChatGPT about a very specific topic.

I hadn't googled it, or any related topics at all, not from my laptop, my phone, or any other device.

In this session, ChatGPT did not use Bing, yet the next few days my YouTube recommendations consisted of videos on that particular topic.

LMAO. Not surprised, just LMAO.