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I’m writing this to get an engineering regret out of my chest based on my personal thoughts.I need to first give context. I have been part of a multi-year project that splits an existing SaaS product from one AWS region into separate instances in several AWS regions, to improve availability and reliability through i...

(See also: Part 1 and Part 3.)(Note: You can find the completed LFE code from this post here: https://github.com/danieljaouen/dynamic-programming-in-lfe , as well as the translated Elixir code here: https://github.com/danieljaouen/dynamic-programming-in-elixir .)Today, I am revisiting everyone’s favorite topic from ...

Philosopher Gwilym David Blunt says anyone concerned with the importance of individual liberty and human autonomy ought to be alarmed, because we are turning into subscription slaves.I want you to imagine that at some point in the not-too-distant future you are losing your eyesight. Although blindness will result, i...