Articles by forrestbrazeal
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A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there (sfstandard.com)

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When everybody's down, nobody is (goodtechthings.com)

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Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis (goodtechthings.com)

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Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis (goodtechthings.com)

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Crimes Against Cloud: An Investigation (goodtechthings.com)

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I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering (goodtechthings.com)

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I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering (goodtechthings.com)

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Hardcore Engineer (2022) [video] (youtube.com)

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Notes on Nix (goodtechthings.com)

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Hardcore Engineer (2022) [video] (youtube.com)

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Notes on Nix (goodtechthings.com)

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Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? (goodtechthings.com)

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What hath AWS wrought? (goodtechthings.com)

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What Hath AWS Wrought? (goodtechthings.com)

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The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people (goodtechthings.com)

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The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people (goodtechthings.com)

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Russian influence on the 2024 election (queryable graph) (getzep.com)

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Knowledge Worker (goodtechthings.com)

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Tech the Heck? Archera (goodtechthings.com)

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What's Left for Me? The AI Existential Crisis Song [video] (youtube.com)

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The AEM Manifesto (aem-manifesto.org)

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Meet The Models [video] (youtube.com)

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Knowledge Worker (goodtechthings.com)

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The RTO Tango [video] (twitter.com/forrestbrazeal)

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AGI: Artificial God Incarnate [video] (youtube.com)

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The Death of the [Modified] Developer (goodtechthings.com)

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The Death of the Modified Developer (goodtechthings.com)

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Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to (ntietz.com)

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AWS deprecations: the end of the Everything Cloud (goodtechthings.com)

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The RTO Tango (twitter.com/forrestbrazeal)

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AWS deprecations: the end of the Everything Cloud (goodtechthings.com)

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The end of the Everything Cloud (goodtechthings.com)

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The case for tech conferences in 2024 (goodtechthings.com)

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The RTO Tango (twitter.com/forrestbrazeal)

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Bitsquatting (dinaburg.org)

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Pay the Creators: A Manifesto (freemanandforrest.com)

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What software development looks like now (goodtechthings.com)

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A Tale of Two Clouds (goodtechthings.com)

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Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow (goodtechthings.com)

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Closed as unhelpful: an elegy for Stack Overflow (goodtechthings.com)

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Show HN: Good Tech Things, an unusual collection of technical comics (goodtechthings.com)

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Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp? (goodtechthings.com)

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Why didn't Google Cloud buy HashiCorp? (goodtechthings.com)

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Is there such a thing as good gatekeeping? (goodtechthings.com)

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The threat to open source comes from within (goodtechthings.com)

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[flagged] OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork (infoworld.com)

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The end is Gemi-nigh (goodtechthings.com)

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Tech the Heck? – CloudTruth (goodtechthings.com)

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I lied about re-creating the Netflix logo with yarn (kevinparry.tv)

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Cynicism is the mind-killer (goodtechthings.com)

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Cynicism Is the Mind-Killer (goodtechthings.com)

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Cynicism Is the Mind-Killer (goodtechthings.com)

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Here's the sad state of the cloud (goodtechthings.com)

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Google is a giant squid wearing Mickey Mouse gloves (goodtechthings.com)

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Leaving Google Cloud (goodtechthings.com)

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Duet AI for Developers is generally available ($19/user/month) (cloud.google.com)

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The man who bought google.com (2016) (babson.edu)

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Crimes Against Cloud (2022) (goodtechthings.com)

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Wait, is cloud bad? (goodtechthings.com)

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Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB (cloud.google.com)

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Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager: Provision Resources with Terraform (cloud.google.com)

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Flip: AI-designed card game built for Google I/O (withgoogle.com)

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I'm Goin' to Production (youtube.com)

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Where does a data center go to retire? Decommissioning Wayfair's 2,000 servers (cloud.google.com)

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AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere (cloud.google.com)

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Replit + Google Cloud (replit.com)

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When programming is gone, will we like what’s left? (goodtechthings.com)

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Calm down about Service Weaver (goodtechthings.com)

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When programming is gone, will we like what's left? (goodtechthings.com)

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When programming is gone, will we like what's left? (goodtechthings.com)

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Every Cloud Architecture (goodtechthings.com)

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Every Cloud Architecture (twitter.com/forrestbrazeal)

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Show HN: Good Tech Things, a collection of cloud and software engineering comics (goodtechthings.com)

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[flagged] ChatGPT Should Not Exist (davidgolumbia.medium.com)

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Crimes Against Cloud: An Investigation (goodtechthings.com)

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AI and the merry-go-round of the mind (2016) (forrestbrazeal.com)

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Google now uses post-quantum cryptography internally (cloud.google.com)

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Emblem Giving: a Google Cloud reference app with architectural decision records (github.com/googlecloudplatform)

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Should you get a master's degree in computer science?

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What would happen if Google employees were swapped with Microsoft employees?

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Announced: Google's OSS Vulnerability Rewards Program

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Getting unstuck: the underrated skill of asking for help