Technological and coding misadventures!
The October 2025 DynamoDB disruption spread through AWS after a race condition in automated DNS management erased the service’s regional endpoint. Its published cause was an automation defect, not AI-written code. That distinction matters. If we blame every outage on an LLM, we miss the specific mechanisms that made the outage possible. Continue reading
In this short (less than 4 minutes) video I put together a Go module library, then setup some first initial tests calling against functions in the module. Continue reading
Today the JetBrains team wrapping up final processing for my webinar from last week. You can check out the webinar via their JetBrains Youtube Channel: For even more information be sure to check out the questions and answers on the JetBrain WebStorm IDE blog entry. Some of the questions include: Q: How to enable Node.js... Continue reading
A few weeks ago I kicked off this series of “Distributed Coding Prefunc: Up and Running with Erlang” and had wanted to keep up the momentum, but as life goes I had to tackle a few other things first. But now, it’s time to get back on track with some distributed computing. I intend to... Continue reading
Part 1, Part 2. Now it is time finally for the random name generation. I’ve gotten everything into place, so it’s just a matter of grabbing the names and randomizing among them. Just as a check, after Part 2 was finished I had a total of 98,572 rows of data, or simply 98,572 names. Many... Continue reading
