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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

We had a good chat earlier this week, which you can read here: Image Credits: Rethink Robotics TC: What does your day-to-day look like as a CTO? I either write some code or do some design. Image Credits: Built Robotics A pair of new construction robots debuted this week. So, nothing new on that front.

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Engineering dependability and fault tolerance in a distributed system

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Paddy Byers , Co-founder and CTO at Ably , a realtime data delivery platform. At this point, the principal availability question is: What fraction of the time does the service accept (and then process) the message, versus rejecting it? Consensus formation in globally-distributed systems.

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