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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 20/06/2026

@adapalmer.bsky.social that was a great episode at @dwarkesh.bsky.social's podcast, congrats!

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 13/06/2026

Fresh from the press varoa.net/2026/06/13/d...

A screenshot with this text: "The pipeline had degraded to the point of collapse. On the surface, the problem was that it converged on a choke point that was easy to saturate and hard to scale. But the real issue wasn’t having a bottleneck. It was pretending that there wasn’t one, treating back-pressure signals as a nuisance, and letting an AI-induced productivity anxiety run unchecked."

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 26/05/2026

AI systems, at all levels of the stack (infra and workloads, both training / inference) are complex versions of distributed systems, each with very different constraints and trade-offs www.coreweave.com/blog/why-dis...

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 23/02/2026

Code reviews can't keep up varoa.net/2026/02/22/c...

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 09/02/2026

Just posted varoa.net/2026/02/07/a...

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 09/02/2026

Optimizing software for agent-legibility is quickly becoming a hard requirement... Screenshot from the last "Joy & Curiosity" issue by @thorstenball.com More on identifiers: varoa.net/2024/05/01/i...

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 26/07/2025

“[…] writing, which is the technology of the rational mind”

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 16/07/2025

One of the interesting parts about software engineering is that each domain you work in requires re-asessing every pattern and best practise that seemed set in stone in other domains.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 12/07/2025

I have Copilot (+ Claude) stuck in an infinite loop of refactors with small "improvements" to its own implementation of a relatively simple prompt. Feature parity with human devs is one step closer.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 03/07/2025

Listening to The Sonics' Hitch Hike, noticed that The Velvet Underground reused the riff in There She Goes, the Sonics were covering Marvin Gaye. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-US... www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwyL... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbW3...

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Marvin Gaye Hitchhike

YouTube video by ron torres

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 28/05/2025

Warming up to this reading list enforced backupcy thing, thanks Pocket

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 18/05/2025

It takes you about the same amount of time to read this post as the amount of downtime you’d be allowed per week with 99.999% availability

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 17/05/2025

“One does not replace a blown fuse until one knows just why it has blown.”

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 01/05/2025

There are still 1980’s style sysadmin orgs that have survived by hiding behind the fancy labels of DevOps / SRE / Platform engineering

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 28/04/2025

Been inspecting some pmap outputs these days, and could not find any decent visualization tools. Here is a quick one (nods to @simonwillison.net toolbox). varoa.net/tools/pmap-v...

Screenshot of a tool to visualize pmap outputs.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 27/04/2025

New small tool coding workflow: open vscode, agent mode, ask for tool, go do $chore

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 23/04/2025

So em dash is the new delve?

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Adrián Mato 🐙 @adrianmato.com · 20/04/2025

The more we lean into vibe-based coding, the clearer it becomes that we’ll still need good operators to keep everything sane and under control

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 14/04/2025

Surfacing this from a thread.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 12/04/2025

Queuing theory: probably the hardest topic to confine to work. brooker.co.za/blog/2025/03...

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 12/04/2025

Everything associated to the “software craftsmanship” mystique is up for surprises

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 12/04/2025

When I wrote about "AI will choke delivery pipelines", no-Fri-deploys was one of the practises I mentally labelled as AI-unfriendly. Interrupting the flow of code on Fri creates a glut for Mon. And bundling changes tangles latent defects, making troubleshooting harder. varoa.net/2025/04/07/a...

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AI-generated code will choke delivery pipelines

Everyone is focused on the impact of AI on the production of code. Butcode isn’t just produced, it has to be consumed: built, packaged,tested, distributed, d...

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 09/04/2025

When bundling $thing2 into $thing1 looks like a good opportunity, that's the signal for NOT doing it. If they looked like bad opportunities overengineering & overscoping would never happen.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 09/04/2025

Anybody want to come work on Tailscale's internal dev tooling/productivity, CI, bots, dashboards, etc? Pretty please? 😅

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 08/04/2025

I mention the DORA report in the piece I published today. The report has a page about AI impacting sw delivery negatively. The recommendations (screenshot) about smaller changelists and robust testing make sense, but I'm somewhat skeptical that they are viable ->

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 08/04/2025

If you want a TL;DR of the post it’s probably this one!

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 08/04/2025

"AI-generated code will choke delivery pipelines", just published. varoa.net/2025/04/07/a...

Screenshot from the linked article. The text reads: "Everyone is focused on the impact of AI on the production of code. But code isn’t just produced, it has to be consumed: built, packaged, tested, distributed, deployed, operated. Leveraging AI to amplify the supply of code will grow already complex systems and accelerate the pace of change. Without a realistic plan to scale delivery pipelines, we’re asking for trouble."

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 31/03/2025

The type of content I expect from my timeline on a fine Monday like this

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 23/03/2025

Also a good way to treat clusters as cattle

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pepo g. montes @pepogmontes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Me he abierto un substack. Para hablar de libros. Pero he acabado montándome una peli con Truffaut, Policán y Penélope. Pido perdón. open.substack.com/pub/pepogarc...

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Una peli de humanos

Del cine como escape vital, como descubrimiento intelectual, como duda existencial y como explicación a absolutamente nada.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 20/03/2025

A lot of people don’t realize that putting all build / logic in GHA definitions they essentially turns GHA into an operating system for their dev environment. Which is, of course, a bad idea.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 15/03/2025

While we are at it. Even though people act otherwise, semver declares intent but offers no guarantee. Hopeful versioning might have been a better name

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 15/03/2025

Less reminded than learnt from the first time. Can't count the number of discussions I've had about using git tags as source of truth for release procedures and building artefacts. (From the NH thread about the tj-actions/changed-files vulnerability) news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337...

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 25/02/2025

The article is about turning around platform teams but some points apply to any struggling eng team buff.ly/3QlEK7q

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 19/02/2025

Same with movies (with letterboxed) I miss the old @lastfm.bsky.social recommendations

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 15/02/2025

Adding to my reading list. Moving data across networks is a major challenge with AI (both due to the amount of data, and the different needs of each workload, e.g. ingestion, training, inference, etc.)

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Cross-Cloud Network solutions support for AI workloads | Google Cloud Blog

In this blog we look at some of the benefits of the Cross-Cloud Network in supporting AI and HPC workloads, both managed and self-managed.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 14/02/2025

Great read dasl.cc/2025/01/01/d...

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 14/02/2025

Cross posting bc. @rakyll.org didn't and it's massively important. 2 comments 1) We have decades of mgmt structures evolved based on a playing field where large scale coordination and alignment were essential. They are now obsolete. Some will take years to unwind them and will get overrun ->

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 13/02/2025

// TODO: is underrated as issue tracker

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 13/02/2025

Spring boot configuration, that's the true AGI test

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 11/02/2025

The "AI Architect" point is actually the least interesting topic in the podcast with Bret Taylor, thinking AI beyond autocomplete, and lots of good stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The AI Architect — Bret Taylor

Podcast Episode · Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 02/11/2025 · 1h 36m

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Erik J @erkjlvk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers" hits the nail on the head regarding the usefulness of LLMs for coding. As the maintainer of a medium-sized and fairly custom codebase that I wrote myself, I very much fall within the trough labelled as Senior here.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 10/02/2025

Looking forward to “The Mythical AI Coding Agent”

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 09/02/2025

A good read on how DynamoDB has evolved over the past decade. DynamoDB was originally launched in 2012, and this retrospective paper was published in 2022. www.usenix.org/conference/a... Some takeaways after reading it 🧵

A screenshot of the paper "Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service"
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/elhemali

Figure 1 from the paper: DynamoDB timeline.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 09/02/2025

Really not a fan of the YouTube delivery style, but the content is worth it.

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Galo Navarro @varoa.net · 07/02/2025

Happens to every label and it’s the reason why it’s better to focus on individual principles with direct application in real situations, and avoid engaging with the labels.

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