Ian Nowland
@inowland
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Since starting Junction Labs in the middle of the LLM hype wave, we’ve been asked a lot: Are agentic architectures about to replace microservice architectures?. Out take: the architecture survives, but the platform that supports both will need to change.
junctionlabs.io
LLM agents don’t require new architectures, but they do break the assumptions your platform relies on for safety, observability, and control. This post breaks down what really changes when agents hit...
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At AWS, I led the team that built EC2's Nitro virtualization stack— C code deployed to 500K servers. Biggest lesson? Pre-production testing has limits. You must embrace safe production testing. My blog explains how we did it
junctionlabs.io
During my time at AWS, I learned that even the most rigorous pre-production testing has limits. I share how we built Nitro's reliability by treating production as part of the test loop—with proper...
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RT @theinfrapod: @tnachen @ianlivingstone @inowland @datadog If you're a platform engineer, SRE, or thinking about how to scale engineering….
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In this episode of the Infrapod, Tim and Ian sat down with Ian Nowland (ex-SVP of Datadog, co-author of Platform Engineering book), a platform engineering expert and co-founder of Junction Labs. They...
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RT @ramimacisabird: Interested in Platform Engineering? . I'm taking a security-lens to live blogging a speed read of @skamille and @inowla….
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RT @criccomini: just launched! Excited to see this out (and happy to have $ in). "A drop-in library that adds dyna….
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RT @thenewstack: Platform Engineering: Why You’re Doing It Wrong. @skamille @inowland #PlatformEngineering .
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Authors of a new book on platform engineering discuss why so many platform teams are building ill-considered IDPs, often by not listening to developers and other stakeholders.
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RT @rseroter: "Your book is the first I’ve seen that defines platform engineering as not just the discipline of creating an internal develo….
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Authors of a new book on platform engineering discuss why so many platform teams are building ill-considered IDPs, often by not listening to developers and other stakeholders.
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RT @thenewstack: Platform Engineering: Why You’re Doing It Wrong | By @jkriggins with @skamille and @inowland. #PlatformEngineering. https:….
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Authors of a new book on platform engineering discuss why so many platform teams are building ill-considered IDPs, often by not listening to developers and other stakeholders.
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The art in great engineering is finding the simplifications that make an unbuildable complex problem into a complicated but buildable problem, yet without sacrificing the fidelity to actual needs that ends up in something at best ugly, and at worse, net worthless.
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RT @richardartoul: Follow up to our "Tiered Storage Won't Fix Kafka" blog post. This one explains all the benefits of WarpStream's Zero Dis….
warpstream.com
Follow up to "Tiered Storage Won't Fix Kafka", this post covers all the different advantages that WarpStream's Zero Disk / Diskless Architecture provides over Apache Kafka.
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Shipping is a blood sport, whether its shipping new software or shipping a finished book. As pressure mounts, you're pushed to cut so close, that you can't help but feel like its making you bleed.
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When i was leaving AWS in 2016, it was an outrage that ec2 could not start an instance in less than 2 minutes. Yet today, after hours of fighting with IAM rules, I still get:
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RT @richardartoul: As promised, I wrote a short piece about how we built usage based billing!.
warpstream.com
Serverless products and usage based billing models go hand in hand, almost by definition. A product that is truly serverless effectively has to have usage based pricing, otherwise it’s not really...
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RT @richardartoul: We went deep on a bunch of cool technical stuff like how WarpStream can expose completely different partition assignment….
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RT @itielshwartz: Ian is a good friend & an inspirational tech leader. I'm super happy I got to have this conversation with him on the Kube….
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