software engineering – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Building agents

By Andrew Fairless on April 9, 2025December 31, 2024

https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents Building effective agentsErik Schluntz and Barry ZhangDec 19, 2024 “Over the past year, we’ve worked with dozens of teams building large language model (LLM) agents across industries. Consistently, theContinue readingWhat I Read: Building agents

What I Read: Implementing Raft

By Andrew Fairless on April 2, 2025December 28, 2024

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/implementing-raft-part-0-introduction Implementing Raft: Part 0 – IntroductionFebruary 22, 2020 at 20:33 “The goal of this series of posts is to describe a fully functioning and rigorously tested implementation of Raft,Continue readingWhat I Read: Implementing Raft

What I Read: simulations, chaos testing

By Andrew Fairless on March 24, 2025November 25, 2024

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/formal-modeling-and-simulation How we use formal modeling, lightweight simulations, and chaos testing to design reliable distributed systemsArun Parthiban, Sesh Nalla, Cecilia Wat-KimNovember 20, 2024 “To analyze a distributed system during itsContinue readingWhat I Read: simulations, chaos testing

What I Read: ship projects

By Andrew Fairless on March 13, 2025November 20, 2024

https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship How I ship projects at big tech companiessean goedecke “Shipping in a big tech company is a very different skill to writing code, and lots of people who areContinue readingWhat I Read: ship projects

What I Read: Incremental Jobs, Data Quality

By Andrew Fairless on March 12, 2025November 20, 2024

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/11/13/incremental-jobs-and-data-quality-are-on-a-collision-course-part-2-the-way-forward Incremental Jobs and Data Quality Are On a Collision Course – Part 2 – The Way ForwardJack VanlightlyNov 13, 2024 “The thing we’re missing right now is that theContinue readingWhat I Read: Incremental Jobs, Data Quality

What I Read: GPU Computing

By Andrew Fairless on March 4, 2025November 16, 2024

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/gpu-computing What Every Developer Should Know About GPU ComputingAbhinav UpadhyayOct 18, 2023 “GPUs have become incredibly important because of their pervasive use in deep learning. Today, it is essential forContinue readingWhat I Read: GPU Computing

What I Read: Shapes, Matrix Multiplications

By Andrew Fairless on February 27, 2025November 16, 2024

https://www.thonking.ai/p/what-shapes-do-matrix-multiplications What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like?Horace HeApr 01, 2024 “It has become tribal knowledge that the particular shapes chosen for matmuls has a surprisingly large effect on their performance.Continue readingWhat I Read: Shapes, Matrix Multiplications

What I Read: uv, Python, production

By Andrew Fairless on February 3, 2025October 19, 2024

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/uv-python-production Should you use uv’s managed Python in production?by Itamar Turner-TrauringLast updated 15 Oct 2024 “The uv Python packaging tool provides fast replacements for tools like pip… one of itsContinue readingWhat I Read: uv, Python, production

What I Read: LLM Agents in Production

By Andrew Fairless on December 17, 2024December 16, 2024

https://www.zenml.io/blog/llm-agents-in-production-architectures-challenges-and-best-practices LLM Agents in Production: Architectures, Challenges, and Best PracticesAlex Strick van LinschotenDec 9, 2024 “Taken together, the LLMOps case studies paint a picture of a technology that is atContinue readingWhat I Read: LLM Agents in Production

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