AJ Stuyvenberg
@astuyve
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AWS Hero 💫 Staff eng @Datadoghq 👨🏻💻 sometimes streamer 🎥 AKA Aaron Stuyvenberg Ask me about your cold starts
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Joined March 2009
Check out that p99 cliff!. I spent 2024 shipping our next-generation Lambda Extension, which offers an 82% improvement in cold start time, better aggregation and flushing options, and lower overall overhead – all in a substantially smaller binary package. How we did it, below:
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Junk drawer is vindicated!!!. I saved dishwasher mounting screws from 2019 and now I'm gonna use them
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Real-time audio processing is an extremely interesting corner of performance engineering. You've gotta process data faster than it streams in, otherwise the work is wasted. The engineering team behind CoScreen just open sourced a new library, dtln-rs, suitable for removing noise.
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Right now AI feels like using a 3D printer. If you stand in front of it and say "make me an MRI machine" you get a puddle of garbage. But if you've got full command of a project and want to test 3-4 different components to find which is best, it's a massive productivity boost.
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RT @alexbdebrie: Headline jobs number is good but too much of that growth is focused in the volatile Soham segment. Can't expect that to co….
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RT @astuyve: @WarrenInTheBuff I literally saw this miraculous display of wildlife today on my morning paddle. I've never been so back http….
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Computer science is dead. Long live computer science.
Mark Zuckerberg is offering top research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year, WIRED has learned. Meta has made at least 10 of these offers to OpenAI staffers.
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New house has a wifi-enabled sprinkler controller, which stores the password in plaintext. Is that bad? That seems bad.
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We've officially entered the "why is everything sticky?" parenthood phase.
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Anthropic let Claude run a vending machine. It's a very cool exercise, and at least I'm not the only one rolling my eyes at repeatedly correcting the LLM and hearing "You make an excellent point!"
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it's because
Most of my programmer friends tell me that chatbots are a massive improvement and their work is now far far more efficient. As a consumer I have noticed literally no change whatsoever in the quality or price of chatbot-assisted software. What's going on here?.
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