What I Touched This Week 2021-02-06

Picks:

Monitoring in the time of Cloud Native | by Cindy Sridharan | Medium
Observability is about the ability to let maintainers understand how the system behaves in the production. It’s a super set of monitoring. Observability makes debugging possible in production.
Three pillars of observability:
- Logs
- Metrics
- Traces
@copyconstruct: Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for the Efficient Implementation of a Timer Facility, paper from 1987 that’s used in Kafka and rust’s tokio library.
The thread has listed several timing wheels implementations and a seminar video.
Set Up a New Mac

Programming

Software development topics I’ve changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry
- Clever code isn’t usually good code. Clarity trumps all other concerns.
- So called “best practices” are contextual and not broadly applicable. Blindly following them makes you an idiot
- Designing scalable systems when you don’t need to makes you a bad engineer.
- In general, RDBMS > NoSql

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Setting up a new machine | Alabê’s Blog
Use brew bundle to restore Homebrew packages:
```
$ brew bundle dump --file=Brewfile
$ brew bundle --file=Brewfile
```
How To Use Short Passwords On MacOS Big Sur. 4 Characters Not Required. (Updated) | by CHARLES HEARN | Medium
```
pwpolicy -clearaccountpolicies
```
Using Your YubiKey as a Smart Card in macOS – Yubico
To turn off the pairing user interface in macOS
```
sc_auth pairing_ui -s disable
```

Ray Dalio: What I Really Think of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin is one hell of an invention
- there being a growing need for money or storehold of wealth assets that are limited in supply
- there is also a growing need for assets that can be privately held.