Last tweet thread of the year is a meta-one! I'm going to round up the most popular tweet threads I've done. Coming in at number 1: the most popular, by far, was all about how to generate and use random numbers safely.https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1012719876706840578 …
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Number 2: all about the quirks and delight of the modern Irish presidency. Éire Abú!https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1010539374876901376 …
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Colm MacCárthaigh @colmmaccYesterday the current Irish president, Michael D. Higgins, signaled that he's going to run for another term. He'll probably be unopposed, with broad support, and no election needed. If you're not Irish, allow me to blow your mind with the state of Irish politics ...Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
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Number 3: All about TLS1.3 and why it's better:https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/978430840198742016 …
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Number 4: Closing loops and Opening minds, how we build ultra-reliable services at AWShttps://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1071084058841559041 …
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Colm MacCárthaigh @colmmaccLast week I spoke about how we build ultra-reliable AWS services. It's my favourite talk that I've given. Everyone I've asked has told me that they learned something new and interesting
Here I'm going to tweet some highlights to tempt you to watch ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xLxNje30M …Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
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Number 5: all about shuffle sharing ...https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1034492056968736768 …
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Colm MacCárthaigh @colmmaccIt's my ten year anniversary at AWS, I got a new badge and everything! To celebrate, I'm going to tweet out the lightning talk I gave at last week's Amazon dev con. It's all about my favorite thing from my ten years: Shuffle Sharding! pic.twitter.com/FkJ4ykBWGtShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
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Number 6: How to think about and negotiate deadlineshttps://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1034164507738685440 …
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Number 7: Formal verification of state machines in Amazon s2nhttps://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1053031892734242817 …
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Number 8: CloudFront YAML event ...https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1063469223790268416 …
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Colm MacCárthaigh @colmmaccIt's ten years since we launched Amazon CloudFront! Building it was super fun, my first day at Amazon was spent getting stuck into the CloudFront routing software and making it actually work. A few weeks later, but before we launched, we hit my favorite bug ever ...Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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Number 9: this thing tweet about handling interruptionshttps://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1038114978543296513 …
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Colm MacCárthaigh @colmmaccUnpopular opinion: to really make it as a senior/lead engineer, you have to get good at soaking up interruptions, only managing or minimizing them for others not yourself. You just have to adapt to working productively in smaller time slices and handling context switches. Tough!1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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Number 10: this photo I took of the US-Mexico border in West Texas and tweeted at
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Hopefully 2019 will be better! One thought on tweet threads before I close out the year. Occasionally I get "this should be in a blog" complaints. But these tweets have reached an audience of millions of impressions. It's a very effective medium IMO!
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Blog? These would make a nice book thank you very much. And happy new year!
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We need it in a format that we can find via Google
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