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5 ways to control your life

23h ago · 1 min read · I listened to Jim VandeHei on a TED Podcast recently. He laid it out simply. The five things you control. Today Your reactions (do the next right thing) Your reality (input affects outputs) How yo

Influence sans manipulation

Apr 7 · 1 min read · Andi Roberts had a nice article on how to influence people without being manipulative. There are 5 different types of influence methods: Rationalization (logic) Assertion (authority) Negotiating (mid

Did I do a good job?

Apr 2 · 1 min read · TL;DR: Did I: fulfill my intention; aspire to the person I want to be; have fun. I heard Ellen Hendriksen moonlight on one of my favorite podcasts. She talked about a question I ask myself a lot - d

Consistent Hashing

Mar 19 · 2 min read · Adding more servers (horizontal scaling) is the key to managing load. Distributing data access across a set of servers allows for high throughput. In cloud systems it's a given that a server will go d

Design a Rate Limiter

Mar 4 · 3 min read · Clients are identified by user_id, Ip address or other modalities where server side rate limiters offer more control and not prone to manipulations over their client side variations. RateLimiters have