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@lorendsr
Helping Netflix use GraphQL! Author of @graphqlguide 📖 Former eng @temporalio @parlay @nsagov @dartmouth 🏳️‍🌈 they/them
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    Sep 17, 2023
    I never thought that I would build a new JS runtime. But I did help build one, and it's the most reliable JS runtime in existence. Read this blog post to learn more! 😊
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    Jan 20, 2023
    New post: Building Reliable Distributed Systems in Node This introduces the concept of durable execution, which is used by @stripe, @netflix, @coinbase, @Snapchat, and many others to solve a wide range of problems in distributed systems. temporal.io/blog/building-…
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    Nov 26, 2024
    I gave a talk at @graphqlsummit on how to build a reliable and scalable AI group chat app. I went over: - Architecture - Federated GraphQL Subscriptions - Durable execution Any questions, or suggestions for improvement? 🙏
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    AI has entered the chat: Building a multi-party LLM chatbot with GraphOS's federated subscriptions
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    Oct 5, 2024
    I'm impressed and delighted by @cursor_ai. It's definitely been saving me a significant amount of time. I gave the prompt: add a joinGroup mutation and call it when the user clicks "Join Chat" to o1-preview with codebase context, and it suggested almost perfect edits to 5 files
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    Jun 30, 2024
    Interesting experience of the difference between Amazon and Google’s cultures:
    carloarg02.medium.com
    How I went from Amazon, to Google, back to Amazon, Part 1
    Thoughts on boomeranging back to Amazon after working at Google → Part 2 | Part 3 ←
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    Jun 22, 2024
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    Stripe's new db
    My tldr on the database @stripe recently announced: Stripe's infra team built DocDB, an internal DBaaS, with its own sharding on top of Mongo (the DB the Collisons chose in 2011), kinda like Vitess on...
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