Author: Michael Gat
Amazon HQ2: a great data collection initiative
Amazon is now better equipped than any company in existence, to optimize the cost of their physical infrastructure around North America. They found the perfect way to get virtually every major metropo... Read More
Lightning talks, and not…
Lightning talks seem scary, but are in fact one of the best ways to introduce yourself to public speaking in general. Once you can do one of these, you can easily relax some of the rules for longer pr... Read More
Why do I have a BA in Computer Science?
The fact that I had a BA in computer science rather than a BS seemed to be a real stickler for the hiring manager.... Read More
More Moore’s Law
At the SoCal Python meeting on October 30th, I'm going to address in greater detail what I think developers are going to need to worry about in a post-Moore's Law world, and why we need to be better e... Read More
Beyond Moore’s Law?
Working title is pretty grandiose and I hope I can live up to it: Beyond Moore's Law: What happens when the greatest truth of our lives ends?... Read More
AWS, AWS, and More AWS
It's been a summer of AWS for me.... Read More
To Optimize, or Not?
You should be forced to write efficient code and know how to do it in situations where it matters. You should also be able to recognize when it's more important to optimize for readability, maintainab... Read More
Here’s some more bad dataviz
So, each of those numbers is approximatly 1/3 of the total, or so the slices of the pie would suggest?... Read More